Abstract / Summary
Abstract Patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD), chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), and/or diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) are at increased risk for limb loss and death. Existing risk calculators lack consistent clinical adoption; therefore, we aimed to identify vascular and non-vascular predictors of revascularization, amputation, and cardiovascular death using data from the OMOP CDM plus vascular extension. We assembled a cohort of adults with PAD, CLTI, or DFU receiving care within the UNC Health System from 2014–2024 (n = 178,995). Using 127 vascular-specific and thousands of non-vascular HER variables, we used logistic regression with inverse probability weighting and MCMC-based dimensionality reduction to predict revascularization, amputation, and cardiovascular death. The mean age was 72.5 ± 13.9 years; 50.9% were female and 23.5% Black. The revascularization and amputation models performed well (AUC = 0.984 and 0.926, respectively), while cardiovascular mortality prediction was modest (AUC = 0.772). Revascularization predictors were dominated by arterial disease, amputation prediction was driven by treatment interactions with dementia and frailty, and cardiovascular events and risk factors were the strongest predictors of cardiovascular mortality. Prediction models derived from harmonized EHR data demonstrated strong performance for revascularization and amputation. These findings support harmonized EHR-based vascular prediction modeling and warrant multi-institutional validation.