ArticleCirculation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes2025
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Article in Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Underuse of Preoperative Testing Before Index Peripheral Vascular Interventions for Claudication in the Outpatient Setting.Annals of vascular surgery · 2026Article
- Optimizing identification of major adverse limb and cardiovascular events among adults with peripheral artery disease in administrative data.Journal of vascular surgery · 2026Article
- Accuracy of New Hypertensive Crisis Diagnoses Using International Classification of Disease (ICD)-10: A Validation Study in a National Medicare Sample.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe accuracy of contemporary administrative claims codes to discriminate between different phenotypes of peripheral artery disease is not well defined. We aimed to validate a predefined set of
methodsWe included all patients who underwent a peripheral vascular intervention for claudication or CLTI in the US Medicare-matched VQI-VISION (Vascular Quality Initiative Vascular Implant Surveillance and Interventional Outcomes Network) registry database between January 2016 and December 2019. Gold standard claudication and CLTI diagnoses were determined using VQI (Vascular Quality Initiative) registry data. These diagnoses were compared with a predetermined set of
resultsOf 54 180 patients who underwent a peripheral vascular intervention (mean age, 71.9±10.0 years; 41.0% female; 74.2 non-Hispanic White), 20 769 (38.3%) had claudication and 33 411 (61.7%) had CLTI per gold standard registry definitions. The predefined set of
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