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Patients with claudication receive more ‘aggressive’ surgical management in high-competition regions, study finds
Demonstrating the “susceptibility” of care delivery to regional market competition, M. Libby Weaver, MD, presented the case that intermittent claudication (IC) is a “novel and underdefined” driver of practice variation in management of patients at the 2023 Southern Association for…
Interventions associated with ‘poor’ two-year relief of intermittent claudication symptoms
Peripheral vascular interventions for intermittent claudication were linked to “poor” two-year relief of symptoms in the Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) database, a new study published in the May issue of the Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS) found. First-named author Jonathan…
Not Appropriate! Florida healthcare fraud case highlights inappropriateness in care
The latest research around practice patterns and appropriateness in care came shortly after a criminal case in Florida at the tail end of last year in which the owner of an outpatient catheterization lab pled guilty to committing healthcare fraud,…