Practical Criteria for Screening Patients at High Risk for Diabetic Foot Ulceration
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Practical criteria for screening patients at high risk for diabetic foot ulceration.
BACKGROUND A comprehensive understanding of clinical risk factors for developing foot ulcerations would help clinicians to categorize patients by their risk status and schedule intervention resources accordingly to prevent amputation. OBJECTIVE To evaluate risk factors for foot ulcerations among persons with diabetes mellitus. METHOD We enrolled 225 age-matched patients, 46.7% male, with a ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Internal Medicine
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0003-9926
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.158.2.157