Clinician Specialty, Access to Care, and Outcomes Among Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding the relationship between patterns of peripheral artery disease and outcomes is an essential step toward improving care and outcomes. We hypothesized that clinician specialty would be associated with occurrence of major adverse vascular events (MAVE).

Methods

Patients with at least 1 peripheral artery disease-related encounter in our health system and fee-for-service Medicare were divided into groups based on the specialty of the clinician (ie, cardiologist, surgeon, podiatrist, primary care, or other) providing a plurality of peripheral artery disease-coded care in the year prior to index encounter. The primary outcome was MAVE (a composite of all-cause mortality, myocardial infarction, stroke, lower extremity revascularization, and lower extremity a

SUBMITTER: Weissler EH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8840959 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature