Mortality rates and diabetic foot ulcers: Is it time to communicate mortality risk to patients with diabetic foot ulceration?

Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 489-493

  Robbins, Jeffrey M ^a   Strauss, Gerald ^a   Aron, David ^a   Long, Jodi ^a   Kuba, Jennifer ^a   Kaplan, Yelena ^a  

^a LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 57449094383     PISSN: 87507315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7547/0980489     Document Type: Article

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