Patient Versus Physician Variation in Use of Transradial Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.

ABSTRACT: The prevalence of radial access for transradial catheterization remains low in the United States, occurring in only 28% of cases in the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) CathPCI. It is unknown whether the low adoption rate has been influenced by patient characteristics or is more operator dependent. In a 10-center study, we compared clinical and demographic characteristics among 323 radial and 1,506 femoral access percutaneous coronary intervention (PCIs) performed by 65 interventionists capable of radial PCI. We created a hierarchical logistic regression model to identify operator and patient characteristics associated with radial PCI and the median rate ratio to quantify the variation across operators. A subset was interviewed to assess health literacy and preferences in share

SUBMITTER: Shamim S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6128727 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature