Mortality prediction following non-traumatic amputation of the lower extremity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients who undergo lower extremity amputation secondary to the complications of diabetes or peripheral artery disease have poor long-term survival. Providing patients and surgeons with individual-patient, rather than population, survival estimates provides them with important information to make individualized treatment decisions.

Methods

Patients with peripheral artery disease and/or diabetes undergoing their first unilateral transmetatarsal, transtibial or transfemoral amputation were identified in the Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program (VASQIP) database. Stepdown logistic regression was used to develop a 1-year mortality risk prediction model from a list of 33 candidate predictors using data from three of five Department of Veterans Affairs

SUBMITTER: Norvell DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7504291 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature