Bharadhwaj Ravindhran, Jonathon Prosser, Arthur Lim, Bhupesh Mishra, Ross Lathan, Louise H Hitchman, George E Smith, Daniel Carradice, Ian C Chetter, Dhaval Thakker, Sean Pymer
BACKGROUND: Guidelines recommend cardiovascular risk reduction and supervised exercise therapy as the first line of treatment in intermittent claudication, but implementation challenges and poor patient compliance lead to significant variation in management and therefore outcomes. The development of a precise risk stratification tool is proposed through a machine-learning algorithm that aims to provide personalized outcome predictions for different management strategies. METHODS: Feature selection was performed using the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator method...
January 3, 2024: BJS Open