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A comparison of two diabetic foot ulcer classification systems: the wagner and the university of texas wound classification systems. diabetes care. 2001;24:84–8. Wagner diabetic foot ulcer grade classification system the wagner classification system (sometimes referred to as merritt-wagner) was developed in the 1970s and comprises six ulcer grades, ranging from 0 to 5. this system assesses ulcer depth and the presence of osteomyelitis or gangrene. 2 the grades are as follows 3:. a lower extremity wound that is due to diabetes; b patient has a wound classified as wagner grade iii or higher; and c patient has Wagner Stage Ulcers Medical Billing And Coding Forum Aapc Wagner grade (p 0. 0001), and ut grade(p 0. 0001) and stage (p 0. 001) showed positive trends with increased numberof amputations. for ut stage, the risk of amputation increased with infectionboth alone (odds ratio [or] = 11. 1, p 0. 0001) and in combination with ischemia (or = 14. 7, p 0. 0001), but not significantly wi...