Location, location, location: Geographic clustering of lower-extremity amputation among medicare beneficiaries with diabetes

Diabetes Care

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2363-2367

  Margolis, David J ^a   Hoffstad, Ole ^a   Nafash, Jeffrey ^a   Leonard, Charles E ^a   Freeman, Cristin P ^a   Hennessy, Sean ^a   Wiebe, Douglas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHY; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC MICROANGIOPATHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEG AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SURGICAL RISK; UNITED STATES; AGED; AMPUTATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITALIZATION; LEG; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEG; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857073853     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc11-0807     Document Type: Article

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