Diabetic foot ulcer: Amputation on request?

Diabetes Care

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Collier, Andrew ^a   Dowie, Al ^b   Ghosh, Sujoy ^a   Brown, Peter C ^a   Malik, Iqbal ^a   Boom, Steven ^a  

^a AYR HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; BENEFICENCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIABETIC FOOT; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; FREEDOM; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; JUSTICE; LETTER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT PREFERENCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; AMPUTATION; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS;

AMPUTATION; DECISION MAKING; DIABETIC FOOT; HUMANS;

EID: 84860788636     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc10-2183     Document Type: Letter

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