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The Guyana Diabetes and Foot Care Project: Improved Diabetic Foot Evaluation Reduces Amputation Rates by Two-Thirds in a Lower Middle Income Country
Background. Type 2 diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death in Guyana, South America. A complex, interprofessional, quality improvement intervention to improve foot and diabetes care was rolled out in two phases. Methods & Findings. Phase 1: Establishment of an Interprofessional Diabetic Fo...
Autores principales: | Lowe, Julia, Sibbald, R. Gary, Taha, Nashwah Y., Lebovic, Gerald, Rambaran, Madan, Martin, Carlos, Bhoj, Indira, Ostrow, Brian |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4452302/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26089901 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/920124 |
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