Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Revascularization for Limb Salvage: An Analysis of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Database

Conclusion: There remains a significant ethnic disparity in limb-salvage revascularization. Blacks comprise 29% of patients undergoing a major lower extremity amputation, but only 12% of those undergoing an open surgical procedure and 10% of those undergoing an endovascular procedure for limb salvage. The widespread adoption of endovascular revascularization techniques appears not to have had much impact on this disparity.

http://ves.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/48/5-6/402?rss=1

Source: Vascular and Endovascular Surgery - September 17, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Hughes, K., Boyd, C., Oyetunji, T., Tran, D., Chang, D., Rose, D., Siram, S., Cornwell, E., Obisesan, T. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

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