Reducing major lower extremity amputations after the introduction of a multidisciplinary team in patient with diabetes foot ulcer

BMC Endocrine Disorders

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Chuan ^a   Mai, Lifang ^a   Yang, Chuan ^a   Liu, Dan ^a   Sun, Kan ^a   Song, Weidong ^a   Luo, Baoming ^a   Li, Yan ^a   Xu, Mingtong ^a   Zhang, Shaoling ^a   Li, Fangping ^a   Ren, Meng ^a   Yan, Li ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amputation; Diabetes foot; Ulcer

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PHTHALIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER;

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PATHWAY; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE DURATION; ENDOCRINOLOGIST; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEG AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM; PATIENT CARE; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PODIATRIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; TREND STUDY; ULCER HEALING; AMPUTATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; PROGNOSIS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC RELATIONS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; AMPUTATION; DIABETIC FOOT; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROGNOSIS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84977572899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12902-016-0111-0     Document Type: Article

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