How patients interpret early signs of foot problems and reasons for delays in care: Findings from interviews with patients who have undergone toe amputations

• Alyson J. Littman ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Alyson.littman@va.gov

  Affiliations Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle-Denver Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4247-8286

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• Jessica Young,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle-Denver Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• Megan Moldestad,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle-Denver Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• Chin-Lin Tseng,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Veterans Affairs New Jersey Healthcare System, East Orange, NJ, United States of America

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• Joseph R. Czerniecki,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Veterans Affairs Center for Limb Loss and Mobility (CLiMB), Seattle, WA, United States of America, Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Rehabilitation Care Services, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Department of Rehabilitation, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• Gregory J. Landry,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, United States of America

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• Jeffrey Robbins,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Louis Stokes VA, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

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• Edward J. Boyko,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3695-192X

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• Michael P. Dillon

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physiotherapy, Discipline of Prosthetics and Orthotics, Podiatry, and Prosthetics and Orthotics, School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sports, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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