System for Prediction of Recurrent DFU
Funding:
Podimetrics, Inc. funded this study as its sole
sponsor, including providing the study devices
and financial support to the clinical sites for
study operations.
Duality of Interest
J.D.B., B.J.P., and D.R.L. are employees
of Podimetrics, Inc., a private company
that designed and manufactured the study
device and provided financial support to
clinical sites for study operations as the sole
sponsor of the study. They have contributed
to data analysis, drafting, and interpretation
of results. However, they were not involved
in patient recruitment, consenting, or patient
care. No other potential conflicts of interest
relevant to this article were reported.
Autor Contributions
R.G.F. was responsible for study concept
and design, clinical supervision, patient
care, patient recruitment, acquisition of data,
interpretation of data, and preparation of
the manuscript. I.L.G. was responsible for
clinical supervision, patient care, patient
recruitment, acquisition of data, interpretation
of data, and preparation of the manuscript.
A.M.R. was responsible for clinical
supervision, patient care, patient recruitment,
acquisition of data, and interpretation of
data. S.M.C. was responsible for clinical
supervision, patient care, patient recruitment,
acquisition of data, and interpretation of
data. R.H.F. was responsible for clinical
supervision, patient care, patient recruitment,
acquisition of data, and interpretation of
data. G.M.R. was responsible for clinical
supervision, patient care, patient recruitment,
acquisition of data, and interpretation of
data. J.D.B. was responsible for study
design, data analysis, investigator training,
data acquisition, interpretation of data,
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and preparation of manuscript. B.J.P.
was responsible for concept and design,
data analysis, investigator training, data
acquisition, interpretation of data, and
preparation of the manuscript. D.R.L. was
responsible for data analysis, investigator
training, data acquisition, interpretation of
data, and preparation of the manuscript.
A.N. was responsible for study design and
interpretation of data. B.N. was responsible
for concept and design, clinical supervision,
patient care, patient recruitment, acquisition
of data, and interpretation of data. All authors
contributed in critically revising the manuscript
and have given final approval of the version
to be published. R.G.F. is the guarantor of this
work and, as such, had full access to all the
data in the study and takes responsibility for
the integrity of the data and the accuracy of
the data analysis. Prior Presentation. Parts of
this study were presented in abstract form at
the 76th Scientific Sessions of the American
Diabetes Association, New Orleans, LA,
10–14 June 2016.
Author details
Phoenix VA Health Care System, Phoenix,
AZ
1
VA Long Beach Healthcare System, Long
Beach, CA
2
Center for Clinical Research, Castro Valley,
CA
3
4 Limb Preservation Platform Inc., Fresno, CA
5 Greenville Health System, Greenville, SC
6 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
7 Podimetrics, Inc., Somerville, MA
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System,
Los Angeles, CA
8
9
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
10
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX