Disease understanding in patients newly diagnosed with atrial fibrillation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe self-reported disease understanding for newly diagnosed patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and assess (1) how disease understanding changes over the first 6 months after diagnosis and (2) the relationship between patient understanding of therapies at baseline and treatment receipt at 6 months among treatment-naïve patients.

Methods

We analysed survey data from SATELLITE (Survey of Patient Knowledge and Personal Priorities for Treatment), a substudy of patients with new-onset AF enrolled in the national Outcomes Registry for Better Informed Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (ORBIT) II registry across 56 US sites. Patients were surveyed at the baseline and 6-month follow-up clinic visits using Likert scales.

Results

Among 1004 baseline survey re

SUBMITTER: Kaufman BG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5861387 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature