Reduced incidence of foot-related hospitalisation and amputation amongst persons with diabetes in Queensland, Australia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Lazzarini, Peter A ^a,b   O'Rourke, Sharon R ^c   Russell, Anthony W ^d,e   Derhy, Patrick H ^f   Kamp, Maarten C ^a,g  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b METRO NORTH HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SERVICE   (Australia)

^c Cairns Diabetes Centre   (Australia)

^d PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f Clinical Access and Redesign Unit   (Australia)

^g Queensland Diabetes Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA EXTRACTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC PATIENT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEG AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; STATISTICAL MODEL; AMPUTATION; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; AUSTRALIA; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84938933223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130609     Document Type: Article

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