Assessing Best Medical Treatment Patterns of Patients With Symptomatic Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease in Germany

Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Peripheral Artery Disease; Critical Limb Ischemia; Intermittent Claudication

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03909022

GermanVasc2019_023

Details and patient eligibility

About

This proposed study will be conducted to support real-world-evidence on the extent of best medical treatment for secondary prevention of patients with symptomatic peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAOD) for prevention of worsening limb symptoms or of major adverse cardiovascular events. The overall objective of this study is to gain a better understanding of patient characteristics, treatment patterns and outcomes in PAOD patients. For this purpose the investigators will analyze a patient population hospitalized either with intermittent claudication (IC) or chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI) while taking prior PAOD-related diagnoses in the outpatient setting into account. In detail, we study differentials according to age, calendar time, sex, disease severity and hospital procedure. Data were extracted from available German health insurance claims.

Enrollment: 60,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

1. First clinical diagnosis of symptomatic peripheral arterial occlusive disease (according to Fontaine classification, stages II, III and IV) after at least 5 years without such clinical diagnosis

2. At least 18 years of age

   Exclusion Criteria:

3. Incomplete information on sex, age, date of hospital discharge

4. Less than 5 years of insurance membership before index stay