Regional variation in outcomes for lower extremity vascular disease in the Vascular Quality Initiative

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 810-818

  Soden, Peter A ^a   Zettervall, Sara L ^a   Shean, Katie E ^a   Vouyouka, Ageliki G ^b   Goodney, Philip P ^c   Mills, Joseph L ^d   Hallett, John W ^e   Schermerhorn, Marc L ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTERY PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CLAUDICATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRITICAL LIMB ISCHEMIA; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOMA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; INFRAINGUINAL BYPASS; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG ISCHEMIA; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; LOWER LIMB; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; OPEN SURGERY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VASCULAR PATENCY; AMPUTATION; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; ISCHEMIA; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIFE TABLE; LIMB SALVAGE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; VASCULARIZATION;

AMPUTATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; ISCHEMIA; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIFE TABLES; LIMB SALVAGE; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOWER EXTREMITY; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR GRAFTING;

EID: 85018932816     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2017.01.061     Document Type: Article

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