Validation of the infectious diseases society of America's diabetic foot infection classification system

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 562-565

  Lavery, Lawrence A ^a,e   Armstrong, David G ^b   Murdoch, Douglas P ^a   Peters, Edgar J G ^c   Lipsky, Benjamin A ^d  

^a TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC FOOT INFECTION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOOT AMPUTATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMPUTATION; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33846905752     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/511036     Document Type: Article

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