The value of a wound score for diabetic foot infections in predicting treatment outcome: A prospective analysis from the SIDESTEP trial

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 671-677

  Lipsky, Benjamin A ^a   Polis, Adam B ^b   Lantz, Keith C ^b   Norquist, Josephine M ^b   Abramson, Murray A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC FOOT; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN INDURATION; SUPPURATION; WOUND ASSESSMENT; WOUND INFECTION;

DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 70349111769     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-475X.2009.00521.x     Document Type: Article

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