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Risk of ipsilateral major amputation and death after minor amputation for a typical person in the study cohort
a Major amputation and b death. Charateristics of typical study participant: 70–79-year-old man, with diabetes and peripheral arterial disease, no other comorbidities, severe frailty, highest deprivation quintile, admitted as emergency with gangrene, with no previous revascularization, having toe amputation.
