Lower Extremity Revascularization Not Effective in Majority of Nursing Home Residents
UCSF Center for Surgery in Older Adults - April 06, 2015
UCSF News reports that U.S. only a small number of nursing home residents are alive and ambulatory one year after undergoing lower extremity revascularization procedures with those still alive gaining little, if any, function:
Only a few U.S. nursing home residents who undergo lower extremity revascularization procedures are alive and ambulatory a year after surgery, according to UCSF researchers, and most patients still alive gained little, if any, function.
The study appears in the April 6 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine.
"Our findings can inform conversations among physicians, [...]