What are the most effective interventions in preventing diabetic foot ulcers?

International Wound Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 425-433

  Lavery, Lawrence A ^a,d   Peters, Edgar J G ^b   Armstrong, David G ^c  

^a SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabates; Foots; Inflammation; Prevention amputation; Thermometry; Ulcer; Wound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALLUS; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; FOOT AMPUTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPATHY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSALITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; FOOT DEFORMITIES; FOOT INJURIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CARE; SHOES; VISUAL ACUITY; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 45749112904     PISSN: 17424801     EISSN: 1742481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-481X.2007.00378.x     Document Type: Article

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