Direct healthcare services cost of non-healing diabetic foot wounds in an African origin population in Barbados

André R Greenidge^{1

2}, Kim R Quimby^{1

2}, Angela M C Rose², Amy Speede¹, Ian R Hambleton², Simon G Anderson², R Clive Landis¹

Affiliations

¹ Edmund Cohen Laboratory for Vascular Research, George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre, Caribbean Institute for Health Research, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.
² George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre, Caribbean Institute for Health Research, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.

André R Greenidge et al. Diabet Med. 2022 Jun.

. 2022 Jun;39(6):e14773.

doi: 10.1111/dme.14773. Epub 2021 Dec 28.

André R Greenidge^{1

2}, Kim R Quimby^{1

2}, Angela M C Rose², Amy Speede¹, Ian R Hambleton², Simon G Anderson², R Clive Landis¹

¹ Edmund Cohen Laboratory for Vascular Research, George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre, Caribbean Institute for Health Research, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.
² George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre, Caribbean Institute for Health Research, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.

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Comment in

The costs of foot disease in diabetes in resource poor countries.
Jeffcoate W, Kerr M. Jeffcoate W, et al. Diabet Med. 2022 Sep;39(9):e14900. doi: 10.1111/dme.14900. Epub 2022 Jun 20. Diabet Med. 2022. PMID: 35689629 No abstract available.

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