Amputation Rates for Patients with Diabetes and Peripheral Arterial Disease: The Effects of Race and Region

Changes in Diabetes-Related Complications in the United States, 1990–2010

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Geographic Variation of Lower-Extremity Major Amputation in Individuals With and Without Diabetes in the Medicare Population

James S. Wrobel, Jennifer A. Mayfield, Gayle E. Reiber · Diabetes Care · 2001 · 247 citations · Full text

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Temporal Trends and Geographic Variation of Lower-Extremity Amputation in Patients With Peripheral Artery Disease

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Variation in the Use of Lower Extremity Vascular Procedures for Critical Limb Ischemia

Philip P. Goodney, Lori L. Travis, Brahmajee K. Nallamothu et al. · Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes · 2011 · 177 citations · Full text

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Racial disparities in the use of revascularization before leg amputation in Medicare patients

Kerianne Holman, Peter K. Henke, Justin B. Dimick et al. · Journal of Vascular Surgery · 2011 · 175 citations · Full text

Medicine, Health Policy, Surgery +13