Predictive model of short-term amputation during hospitalization of patients due to acute diabetic foot infections

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 680-684

  Barbern, José ^a   Granizo, Juan José ^b   Aguilar, Lorenzo ^c   Alguacil, Rafael ^a   Sainz, Felipe ^a   Menndez, Maria Antonia ^a   Gimnez, Maria José ^c   Martnez, David ^c   Prieto, Jos ^c  

^a HOSPITAL CENTRAL DE LA DEFENSA GÓMEZ ULLA   (Spain)

^b Grana Datos   (Spain)

^c SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amputation; Diabetes; Foot acute infections; Predictive model; Wagner's grade

Indexed keywords

AZTREONAM; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLINDAMYCIN; INSULIN; METRONIDAZOLE; QUINOLONE;

ACUTE DIABETIC FOOT INFECTION; AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETIC FOOT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOOT AMPUTATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SKIN DEFECT; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 78649644400     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: 15781852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eimc.2009.12.017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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