Implications of True and Perceived Treatment Burden on Cardiovascular Medication Use.

ABSTRACT: Background: Clinical decisions require weighing possible risks and benefits, which are often based on the provider's sense of treatment burden. Patients often have a different view of how heavily treatment burden should be weighted. Objective: To examine how much small variations in patient treatment burden would influence optimal use of antihypertensive medications and how much over- and undertreatment can result from clinicians misunderstanding their patients' values. Methods: Analysis-Markov chain model. Data sources-Existing literature, including an individual-level meta-analysis of blood pressure trials. Target population-US representative sample, ages 40 to 85, no history of cardiovascular disease. Time horizon-Effect of 10 years of treatment on estimated lifetim

SUBMITTER: Sussman JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6124940 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature