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Edinburgh Claudication Questionnaire
Aka: Edinburgh Claudication Questionnaire
- Indications
- Claudication Evaluation
- Criteria (all positive required for PVD diagnosis)
- Leg Pain with walking
- Pain does not have onset while standing or sitting
- Pain occurs while walking fast or uphill
- Pain resolves within 10 minutes of standing still
- Modifiers
- Pain occur even at normal pace on level ground
- Suggests severe Claudication
- Pain location
- Classic: Calf pain
- Atypical: Thigh or buttock pain without calf pain
- Efficacy
- Test Sensitivity: 91%
- Test Specificity: 99%
- References
- Leng (1992) J Clin Epidemiol 45:1101-9 [PubMed]