Lower Extremity Amputations in Persons With Diabetes Mellitus in the Netherlands

"persons are defined as having a lower extremity amputation when an operation with removal of an extremity below the hips took place.~To identify those people with diabetes who underwent amputation, the following DBC's claims were extracted from the system: 038590; amputation upper leg, 038690; amputation lower leg, 038691; exarticulation of the lower leg, 038790; amputation of the tarsus, 038791; amputation or exarticulation of a toe, 038793; exarticulation of the foot, 038794; Chopart exarticulation, Lisfranc, respectively trans metatarsal amputation. Amputations were categorized into minor (038790, 038791, 038793, 038794) and major (038590, 038690,038691) amputations"