Presentation given at the Foundation's Jan. 26, 2011 Research and Policy Forum by Shannon Brownlee, MS, acting director of the New America Health Policy Program and nationally known writer and essayist.
The Cycle of Cardiac Care and the Uninformed Patient
1. Adventures in Cardiology: What SDM Means to Patients Shannon Brownlee, MS Acting Director, New America Foundation Health Policy Program Instructor, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice brownlee@newamerica.net
7. Relationship Between Procedure Indications and Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions by American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force Guidelines H. Vernon Anderson et al Circulation 2005;112;2786-2791
8. Cardiologists’ Use of PCI for Stable Coronary Artery Disease “Yes, medical therapy is as effective as PCI, but when I see a lesion, the bottom line is that the oculostenotic reflex always wins out.” “[The patient] is not going to get out of the cath lab without a stent.” Grace A. Lin, et al ARCH INTERN MED/VOL 167 (NO. 15), AUG 13/27, 2007
9. Well Bob, it looks like a paper cut, but just to be sure, let’s do lots of catheterizations.
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11. Cardiologists’ perception of the patient’s angina was often greater than the patient’sMB Rothberg Ann Intern Med. 2010 Sep 7;153(5):307-1
12. “Guidelines must be living documents; they must continue to evolve to meet the needs of interventional cardiologists faced with increasingly complex patients . . .” Circulation 2005;112;2754-2755
13. Relationship Between Procedure Indications and Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions by American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force Guidelines H. Vernon Anderson et al Circulation 2005;112;2786-2791
88% of patients believed that PCI reduced the risk of MI and death
Breaking budgets. Health care threatens to crowd out spending on many other things we value, like educating our children, traveling, starting new businesses, improving the nation’s infrastructure.