Prediction of Diabetic Foot Ulcer Occurrence Using Commonly Available Clinical Information

We appreciate the interest of Leese and Morris (1) in our article and enjoyed reading their publication (2), which was published 1 month before our own and hence was not cited by us (3). We wish to point out that their characterization of our population as having been “recruited from a hospital diabetes clinic” is not correct, as we clearly describe that our subjects were recruited from a general internal medicine clinic (3). With regard to the generalizability of our findings, they should be applicable to the ∼25 million U.S. …