One Year Health Status Benefits Following Treatment for New Onset or Exacerbation of Peripheral Arterial Disease Symptoms: The Importance of Patients' Baseline Health Status
van Zitteren M, Denollet J, Heyligers JM, Elshof JW, Nooren MJ, Burger DH, de Fijter WM, Vriens PW, Smolderen KG. One Year Health Status Benefits Following Treatment for New Onset or Exacerbation of Peripheral Arterial Disease Symptoms: The Importance of Patients' Baseline Health Status. European Journal Of Vascular And Endovascular Surgery 2015, 50: 213-222. PMID: 26036809, DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2015.04.003.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAgedDisease ProgressionFemaleHealth StatusHealth Status IndicatorsHumansLinear ModelsMaleMental HealthMiddle AgedNetherlandsPeripheral Arterial DiseasePredictive Value of TestsPropensity ScoreProspective StudiesRecovery of FunctionRisk FactorsSeverity of Illness IndexTime FactorsTreatment OutcomeUltrasonography, Doppler, DuplexConceptsHealth status scoresPeripheral arterial diseaseHealth status gainsBaseline health statusInvasive treatmentStatus scoreHealth statusPatient's baseline health statusPeripheral arterial disease symptomsHealth status levelsHealth status outcomesNew onsetPAD symptomsVascular clinicArterial diseaseHighest quartilePCS scoresInvasive strategyTreatment strategiesClinical informationStatus outcomesPatientsLinear regression analysisChange scoresExacerbation