Geographic clustering of diabetic lower-extremity amputations in low-income regions of California

Health Affairs

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1383-1390

  Stevens, Carl D ^a   Schriger, David L ^b   Raffetto, Brian ^c   Davis, Anna C ^d   Zingmond, David ^a   Roby, Dylan H ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC PATIENT; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; LEG AMPUTATION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; AMPUTATION; CALIFORNIA; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; LOWER LIMB; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY;

AGED; AMPUTATION; CALIFORNIA; CENSUSES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY AREAS; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS;

EID: 84905996483     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2014.0148     Document Type: Article

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