Predictors and Consequences of Loss to Follow-up after Vascular Surgery

A scoping review on the factors associated with the lost to follow-up (LTFU) amongst patients with chronic disease in ambulatory care of high-income countries (HIC)

“…The remaining studies were conducted in single countries. Eleven of them were carried out in the USA [ 30 , 32 , 33 , 35 , 37 , 39 , 42 , 43 , 45 – 47 ], four in Japan [ 36 , 38 , 40 , 51 ], two in Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region), China [ 50 , 52 ], two in South Korea [ 41 , 53 ], and one each in Austria [ 31 ], Canada [ 44 ], Israel [ 49 ], New Zealand [ 54 ] and Spain [ 34 ].…”

“…Patients who missed the clinic appointment, but subsequently reappeared because of disease complications, were included as cases DNS Attendance records Gao et al (2019) [ 35 ]/ USA, Cohort Hospital and outpatient retina practice Macular edema secondary to retinal vein occlusion 3400 863 (25.4%) Non-LTFU: LTFU : Overall: DNS DNS 75.3 (13.2) DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS LTFU was defined as a subsequent visit occurring more than 12 months after an intravitreal injection or no further visits after the last intravitreal injection with this last injection occurring at least 12 months prior and no records of death before the end of the study period. (Window for observation: Jan 1, 2016 to Jan 1, 2017) 12 (DNS) Database records Khanh et al (2020) [ 37 ]/ USA, Cohort Outpatient vascular clinic Vascular disease (endovascular aneurysm repair; carotid endarterectomy; infrainguinal bypass; peripheral vascular intervention) 440 326 (74.1%) Non-LTFU: LTFU : Overall: DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 67 (62–75) DNS DNS DNS Primary end point was LTFU at 1 month, which was defined as lack of an inperson vascular clinic visit within 30 days of discharge from the index procedure. Secondary end points were LTFU at 1 year, defined as lack of an in-person vascular clinic visit within 9 and 22 months after discharge from index procedure) Primary: 1 month post-discharge (Standard practice in given division) Secondary: 9–22 months post-discharge (NS) Electronic medical record Kim et al (2021) [ 53 ]/ South Korea, Case-control University hospital Diabetic macular edema 182 60 (33.0%) Non-LTFU: LTFU : Overall: 56.73 (12.28) 57.80 (12.28) DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS ...…”

“…For the purpose of this review, these studies were broadly classified into three categories: “Chronic mental disease”, “Chronic physical disease” and “Unspecified chronic disease” for articles that did not explicitly mention the type of chronic disease studied. Each category included 11 [ 31 – 34 , 36 , 40 – 43 , 48 , 49 ], 13 [ 30 , 35 , 37 – 39 , 44 , 45 , 47 , 50 – 54 ] and one [ 46 ] study respectively. For chronic mental disease studies, the diseases included: anxiety disorder [ 40 , 49 ], bipolar disorder [ 34 , 41 ], dementia [ 33 , 36 ], depression [ 40 , 42 , 43 ].…”

“…For chronic mental disease studies, the diseases included: anxiety disorder [ 40 , 49 ], bipolar disorder [ 34 , 41 ], dementia [ 33 , 36 ], depression [ 40 , 42 , 43 ]. For chronic physical disease studies, the diseases included: diabetes [ 38 , 39 , 47 , 51 , 54 ] or diabetes-related conditions [ 35 , 45 , 50 , 53 ], human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) [ 44 ], hypertension [ 30 ], kidney disease [ 52 ] and vascular disease [ 37 ].…”

Improved outpatient medical visit compliance with sociodemographic discrepancies in vascular telehealth evaluations

“…Loss to follow-up was associated with worse long-term survival. 13 In a recent cohort study analyzing telehealth and in-person visits of 1,131,722 primary care patients in an integrated health system, it was shown that 7-day follow-ups after an initial telehealth visit are higher than an initial in-person visits (26.0% vs. 24.5%). 14 Our results suggest a potentially stronger role for telehealth visits amongst vascular surgery patient; telehealth increased the odds of medical visit compliance by 2.3 times compared to the odds of an in-person visit (OR=2.31, 95%CI:2.05-2.61).…”