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As a routine aspect of their practice, podiatrists are required to keep accurate and relevant records of their patients, their foot condition, associated diagnoses, and subsequent treatment. This recorded information has previously been demonstrated to have value in person identification. This chapter considers identification from podiatry records, presents an overview of the approaches that would be taken in this work, and considers potential sources of error that forensic podiatrists may encounter.
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DiMaggio, J.A., Vernon, W. (2011). Identification from Podiatry Records. In: Forensic Podiatry. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61737-976-5_7
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