Incidence of lower extremity amputations in the diabetic compared with the non-diabetic population: A systematic review

• Maria Narres ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Maria.Narres@ddz.uni-duesseldorf.de

  Affiliations Institute for Health Services Research and Health Economics, German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf, Germany, Institute for Health Services Research and Health Economics, Centre for Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Munich-Neuherberg, Germany

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• Tatjana Kvitkina,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Health Services Research and Health Economics, German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf, Germany, Institute for Health Services Research and Health Economics, Centre for Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Munich-Neuherberg, Germany

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• Heiner Claessen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Health Services Research and Health Economics, German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Munich-Neuherberg, Germany

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• Sigrid Droste †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Health Services Research and Health Economics, Centre for Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

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• Björn Schuster,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Health Services Research and Health Economics, Centre for Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

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• Stephan Morbach,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Health Services Research and Health Economics, Centre for Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany, Department of Diabetology and Angiology, Virgin Mary Hospital Soest, Germany

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• Gerhard Rümenapf,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic for Vascular Surgery, Deaconess Foundation Hospital, Upper Rhine Vascular Center Speyer-Mannheim, Speyer, Germany

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• Kristien Van Acker,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre Santé des Fagnes, Chimay, Belgium

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• Andrea Icks

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Health Services Research and Health Economics, German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf, Germany, Institute for Health Services Research and Health Economics, Centre for Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Munich-Neuherberg, Germany

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