Peripheral arterial testing before lower extremity amputation among medicare beneficiaries, 2000 to 2010

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 142-150

  Vemulapalli, Sreekanth ^a   Greiner, Melissa A ^a   Jones, W Schuyler ^a   Patel, Manesh R ^a   Hernandez, Adrian F ^a   Curtis, Lesley H ^a  

^a DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amputation; Ankle brachial index8Diagnostic techniques; Cardiovascular; Peripheral arterial disease

Indexed keywords

ABOVE KNEE AMPUTATION; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTICLE; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOOT AMPUTATION; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; NEGRO; NONTRAUMATIC LOWER EXTREMITY AMPUTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL TESTING; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION; ULTRASOUND;

AMPUTATION; ANKLE-BRACHIAL INDEX; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIOVASCULAR; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84898735432     PISSN: 19417713     EISSN: 19417705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.113.000376     Document Type: Article

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