Preventing diabetic foot ulcer recurrence in high-risk patients: use of temperature monitoring as a self-assessment tool

LA Lavery, KR Higgins, DR Lanctot… - Diabetes …, 2007 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE—The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a temperature
monitoring instrument to reduce the incidence of foot ulcers in individuals with diabetes who …

Meta‐analysis comparison of open versus percutaneous tracheostomy

KM Higgins, X Punthakee - The Laryngoscope, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives/Hypothesis: Multiple studies have been performed to characterize differences in
complications and cost‐effectiveness of open and percutaneous tracheostomy; however, …

Home monitoring of foot skin temperatures to prevent ulceration

LA Lavery, KR Higgins, DR Lanctot… - Diabetes …, 2004 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE—To evaluate the effectiveness of at-home infrared temperature monitoring as
a preventative tool in individuals at high risk for diabetes-related lower-extremity ulceration …

Persistence of transients in spatially structured ecological models

A Hastings, K Higgins - Science, 1994 - science.org
Simple discrete-time ecological models for a species with alternating reproduction and
dispersal are shown to have complex transient dynamics. If the density dependence (nonlinearity…

Stochastic dynamics and deterministic skeletons: population behavior of Dungeness crab

K Higgins, A Hastings, JN Sarvela, LW Botsford - Science, 1997 - science.org
Ecologists have fiercely debated for many decades whether populations are self-regulated
by density-dependent biological mechanisms or are controlled by exogenous environmental …

Metapopulation extinction caused by mutation accumulation

K Higgins, M Lynch - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2001 - National Acad Sciences
Theory suggests that the risk of extinction by mutation accumulation can be comparable to
that by environmental stochasticity for an isolated population smaller than a few thousand …

Assessment of toxic effects and survival in treatment deescalation with radiotherapy vs transoral surgery for HPV-associated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma …

…, S Hamilton, J Wu, A Eskander, K Higgins… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The optimal approach for treatment deescalation in human papillomavirus (HPV)–related
oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas (OPSCCs) is unknown. Objective To …

The role of intraoperative rapid parathyroid hormone monitoring for predicting thyroidectomy-related hypocalcemia

KM Higgins, DL Mandell, S Govindaraj… - … –Head & Neck …, 2004 - jamanetwork.com
Objective To determine if the intraoperative rapid parathyroid hormone (PTH) assay can be
used to accurately predict postoperative calcium levels following total or completion …

Predictors of complications of free flap reconstruction in head and neck surgery: analysis of 304 free flap reconstruction procedures

GJ le Nobel, KM Higgins, DJ Enepekides - The Laryngoscope, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives: The objectives of this study were to classify and analyze perioperative
complications following free flap reconstruction in the head and neck and investigate potential …

Randomised clinical trial to compare total contact casts, healing sandals and a shear‐reducing removable boot to heal diabetic foot ulcers

LA Lavery, KR Higgins, J La Fontaine… - International wound …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of three off‐loading techniques to heal
diabetic foot wounds: total contact casts ( TCC s), healing sandals ( HS s) and a removable …