Temperature monitoring to assess, predict, and prevent diabetic foot complications

Current Diabetes Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 416-419

  Lavery, Lawrrence A ^a   Armstrong, David G ^b  

^a SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIABETIC FOOT; FOOT ULCER; HEALTH CARE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREDICTION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SELF CARE; SELF EVALUATION; SHOE; STANDARD; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TREATMENT FAILURE;

BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETIC FOOT; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; SHOES;

EID: 37349108192     PISSN: 15344827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11892-007-0069-4     Document Type: Review

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