Lower Extremity Assessment Project (LEAP) - The Best Available Evidence on Limb-Threatening Lower Extremity Trauma

Orthopedic Clinics of North America

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 233-239

  Higgins, Thomas F ^a   Klatt, Joshua B ^a   Beals, Timothy C ^a  

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

Author keywords

Amputation; Limb salvage; Lower extremity assessment project; Mangled extremity

Indexed keywords

ABOVE KNEE AMPUTATION; ABSENT PLANTAR SENSATION; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; CHRONIC PAIN; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG INJURY; LIMB SALVAGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OSTEOMYELITIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SMOKING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURGICAL INFECTION; TIBIA FRACTURE; TISSUE FLAP; TREATMENT INDICATION; WORK RESUMPTION;

AMPUTATION; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; LIMB SALVAGE; LOWER EXTREMITY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SENSATION; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 77951888025     PISSN: 00305898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocl.2009.12.006     Document Type: Review

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