Location, Location, Location: Geographic Clustering of Lower-Extremity Amputation Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Diabetes
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Location, Location, Location: Geographic Clustering of Lower-Extremity Amputation Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Diabetes
OBJECTIVE Lower-extremity amputation (LEA) is common among persons with diabetes. The goal of this study was to identify geographic variation and the influence of location on the incidence of LEA among U.S. Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted a cohort study of beneficiaries of Medicare. The geographic unit of analysis was hospital referral regions (HR...
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عنوان ژورنال: Diabetes Care
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0149-5992,1935-5548
DOI: 10.2337/dc11-0807