Comment on Crews et al. Role and Determinants of Adherence to Off-loading in Diabetic Foot Ulcer Healing: A Prospective Investigation. Diabetes Care 2016;39:1371–1377
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Comment on Crews et al. Role and Determinants of Adherence to Off-loading in Diabetic Foot Ulcer Healing: A Prospective Investigation. Diabetes Care 2016;39:1371-1377.
We were pleased that van Netten et al. (1) appreciate the importance of our article (2) substantiating the relationship between adherence to off-loading modalities and healing of diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). Their letter contained several comments regarding our article that we address here. The first comment by van Netten et al. is regarding the rationale for using a surrogate clinical outcome ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Diabetes Care
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0149-5992,1935-5548
DOI: 10.2337/dc16-1542