Health-Related Quality of Life Predicts Major Amputation and Death, but Not Healing, in People With Diabetes Presenting With Foot Ulcers: The Eurodiale Study
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vol. 37 no. 3 694-700
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- Received May 23, 2013
- Accepted October 18, 2013
- Published in print February 20, 2014.
- Published online ahead of print October 29, 2013.
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- Volkert Siersma1⇑,
- Hanne Thorsen1,
- Per E. Holstein2,
- Marleen Kars3,
- Jan Apelqvist4,
- Edward B. Jude5,
- Alberto Piaggesi6,
- Karel Bakker7,
- Michael Edmonds8,
- Alexandra Jirkovská9,
- Didac Mauricio10,
- Gunnel Ragnarson Tennvall11,
- Heinrich Reike12,
- Maximilian Spraul13,
- Luigi Uccioli14,
- Vilma Urbancic15,
- Kristien van Acker16,
- Jeff van Baal17 and
- Nicolaas C. Schaper3
- 1Research Unit for General Practice and Section of General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2Copenhagen Wound Healing Centre, Bispebjerg University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 3Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine and Research School CAPHRI, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands
- 4Department of Endocrinology, University of Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
- 5Diabetes Centre, Tameside General Hospital, Ashton-under-Lyne, United Kingdom
- 6Sezione Dipartimentale Piede Diabetico, Dipartimento di Area Medica, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy
- 7IDF Consultative Section and International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot, Heemstede, the Netherlands
- 8Diabetic Department, Kings College Hospital, London, United Kingdom
- 9Diabetes Centre, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
- 10Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Hospital de Sant Pau, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- 11Swedish Institute for Health Economics, Lund, Sweden
- 12Innere Abteilung, Mariannen Hospital, Werl, Germany
- 13Mathias-Spital, Diabetic Department, Rheine, Germany
- 14Policlinico Tor Vergata, Department of Internal Medicine, Rome, Italy
- 15Department of Endocrinology, University Medical Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 16H Familie Ziekenhuis and Centre de Santé des Fagnes, Department of Endocrinology, Rumst and Chimay, Belgium
- 17Department of Surgery, Twenteborg Ziekenhuis, Almelo, the Netherlands
- Corresponding author: Volkert Siersma, siersma{at}sund.ku.dk.