Sex differences in diabetic foot ulcer severity and outcome in Belgium

• An-Sofie Vanherwegen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: an-sofie.vanherwegen@sciensano.be

  Affiliation Health Services Research, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0195-3060

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• Patrick Lauwers,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium

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• Astrid Lavens,

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

  Affiliation Health Services Research, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium

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• Kris Doggen,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Services Research, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium

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• Eveline Dirinck,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism, University Hospital Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium

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• on behalf of the Initiative for Quality Improvement and Epidemiology in multidisciplinary Diabetic Foot Clinics (IQED-Foot) Study Group

  ¶Membership of the Initiative for Quality Improvement and Epidemiology in multidisciplinary Diabetic Foot Clinics (IQED-Foot) Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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