Do novel peer review method for improving controlled substance prescribing in primary care?
Use of a CRT in an urban primary care clinic provided helpful insight on prescribing practices and has promise to improve quality of opioid prescribing.
Mean cQOL improved most with direct revascularization, especially when the treatment received matched that predicted by the models or proposed by the surgeon. Type of treatment received was an independent predictor of agreement of treatment with recommendations. Patient refusal to follow the recommended treatment as well as the strategy not to revascularize claudicants who persist in smoking were associated with much less patient benefit from treatment.