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- Title
Screening, Evaluation, and Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Disease.
- Authors
Skelly, Christopher L.; Cifu, Adam S.
- Abstract
The article presents a clinical guideline synopsis that focuses on whether to screen asymptomatic patients for peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and whether treatment strategies improve clinical outcomes compared with medications. Topics mentioned include characteristics of the guideline source, randomized trials or systematic reviews included in the studies of treatment modes for intermittent claudication, and the potential benefits and harms of PAD screening.
- Subjects
ARTERIAL diseases; INTERMITTENT claudication; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; DISEASES of the anatomical extremities; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2016, Vol 316, Issue 14, p1486
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2016.11103