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A qualitative approach to developing a patient-derived intervention to increase exercise in peripheral arterial diseaseTracie C Collins
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, and Section for Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
J Cardiopulm Rehabil 26:92-100. 2006..In designing a patient-physician communication intervention, we explored patients' perceptions of the role of exercise in the treatment of peripheral arterial disease (PAD)...- Preoperative risk factors for 30-day mortality after elective surgery for vascular disease in Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals: is race important?T C Collins
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston VA Medical Center, and Section of Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine, TX 77030, USA
J Vasc Surg 34:634-40. 2001..This study determined risk factors for mortality after surgery for vascular disease and determined whether race is an important risk factor... - Gender and peripheral arterial diseaseTracie C Collins
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Section of Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Am Board Fam Med 19:132-40. 2006..The aim of this study is to determine gender differences in the risk factor profile and leg symptoms of peripheral arterial disease (PAD)... - An absent pulse is not sensitive for the early detection of peripheral arterial diseaseTracie C Collins
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, USA
Fam Med 38:38-42. 2006..This study's objective was to determine the test characteristics of pedal pulse palpation in the diagnosis of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) when compared to the more widely recommended screening tool, the ankle-brachial index (ABI)... - Peripheral arterial disease symptom subtype and walking impairmentTracie C Collins
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA
Vasc Med 10:177-83. 2005..Future research should focus on methods to improve daily walking in patients with PAD and atypical leg symptoms... - Ethnicity and peripheral arterial diseaseTracie C Collins
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Tex 77030, USA
Mayo Clin Proc 80:48-54. 2005..To determine whether race/ethnicity is an independent risk factor for peripheral arterial disease (PAD)... - A Spanish translation of the Walking Impairment Questionnaire was validated for patients with peripheral arterial diseaseTracie C Collins
Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, 2002 Holcombe Blvd 152, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 57:1305-15. 2004..Walking impairment is a common manifestation of peripheral arterial disease (PAD). In this study we present evidence for the validity of our Spanish translation of the Walking Impairment Questionnaire (WIQ)... - Benefits of antithrombotic therapy after infrainguinal bypass grafting: a meta-analysisTracie C Collins
Department of Veterans Affairs, Baylor College of Medicine, Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Am J Med 117:93-9. 2004..We performed a meta-analysis to ascertain the benefits of antithrombotic therapy for maintaining the patency of vascular grafts following lower extremity bypass operations... - The prevalence of peripheral arterial disease in a racially diverse populationTracie C Collins
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Arch Intern Med 163:1469-74. 2003..The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in white, African American, and English- and Spanish-speaking Hispanic patients... - Short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term mortality in patients hospitalized for strokeTracie C Collins
Houston Center for Quality Care and Utilization Studies, 2002 Holcombe Blvd 152, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 56:81-7. 2003..Further work is needed to assess the impact of actual care patterns, for the above identified risk factors, on stroke prognosis over varying time periods... - Lower extremity nontraumatic amputation among veterans with peripheral arterial disease: is race an independent factor?Tracie C Collins
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston VA Medical Center, Texas, USA
Med Care 40:I106-16. 2002..To determine if race/ethnicity is independently associated with an increased risk for nontraumatic lower extremity amputation versus lower extremity bypass revascularization among patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD)... - Hospital use and survival among Veterans Affairs beneficiariesCarol M Ashton
Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
N Engl J Med 349:1637-46. 2003..We postulated that if access to hospital care was reduced too much, or if decreased hospital use was not offset by improvements in ambulatory care, urgent care visits would increase or survival rates would fall... - Process of care and outcomes in patients with peripheral arterial diseaseTracie C Collins
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, and Section of Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:942-8. 2007..We investigated the association of process of care measures with adverse limb and systemic events in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD)... - Herpes zoster and its cardiovascular complications in the elderly--another look at a dormant virusTony S Ma
Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Cardiology 107:63-7. 2007.... - Open versus endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in VA hospitalsRuth L Bush
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Michael E DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Am Coll Surg 202:577-87. 2006.... - Racial differences in how patients perceive physician communication regarding cardiac testingTracie C Collins
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston VA Medical Center, Texas, USA
Med Care 40:I27-34. 2002..Mistrust may be a source of some of the documented racial variation in health care utilization... - Racial differences in health-related beliefs, attitudes, and experiences of VA cardiac patients: scale development and applicationNancy R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research a VA Health Services Research and Development National Center of Excellence, Bedford VA Medical Center, Massachusetts 01730, USA
Med Care 40:I72-85. 2002.... - Racial and ethnic disparities in the use of health services: bias, preferences, or poor communication?Carol M Ashton
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:146-52. 2003..We evaluate the evidence that poor communication is a cause of disparities and propose some remedies drawn from the communication sciences... - Diabetes mellitus, smoking, and the risk for asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease: whom should we screen?Sharon L Eason
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Section of Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77021, USA
J Am Board Fam Pract 18:355-61. 2005..A lack of both demonstrated low rates for predicting asymptomatic PAD (predicted value positive, 1%). CONCLUSION: The ankle-brachial index could become routine screening among patients with diabetes mellitus and/or who smoke... - Healthcare use by veterans treated for diabetes mellitus in the Veterans Affairs medical care systemCarol M Ashton
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston VA Medical Center, and Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex 77030, USA
Am J Manag Care 9:145-50. 2003..To estimate the burden of comorbid conditions and to describe patterns of inpatient and outpatient service use by veterans with diabetes mellitus... - Racial differences in cardiac catheterization as a function of patients' beliefsNancy R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Am J Public Health 94:2091-7. 2004..We examined racial differences in cardiac catheterization rates and reviewed whether patients' beliefs or other variables were associated with observed disparities... - Process of care and outcomes in peripheral arterial diseaseTracie C Collins
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Am J Med Sci 325:125-34. 2003..The purpose of this article is to review the burden of PAD and to discuss the association of process of care with adverse limb outcomes in patients with PAD... - Unsupervised walking therapy and atherosclerotic risk-factor management for patients with peripheral arterial disease: a pilot trialTracie C Collins
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street S E, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Ann Behav Med 33:318-24. 2007..Although only a small percentage of patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) have claudication, many more suffer from atypical leg symptoms... - Propensity score analysis in observational studies: outcomes after abdominal aortic aneurysm repairMichael L Johnson
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, and Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston VAMC, 2002 Holcomb Blvd (112, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Am J Surg 192:336-43. 2006..Patients who underwent elective EVAR had substantially lower perioperative mortality and morbidity rates compared with patients having open repair, which was not explained solely by patient selection in an observational dataset...