Primary Care Physician Perspectives on Barriers to Statin Treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Discontinuation of statin therapy represents a major challenge for effective cardiovascular disease prevention. It is unclear how often primary care physicians (PCPs) re-initiate statins and what barriers they encounter. We aimed to identify PCP perspectives on factors influencing statin re-initiation.

Methods

We conducted six nominal group discussions with 23 PCPs from the Deep South Continuing Medical Education network. PCPs answered questions about statin side effects, reasons their patients reported for discontinuing statins, how they respond when discontinuation is reported, and barriers they encounter in getting their patients to re-initiate statin therapy. Each group generated a list of responses in round-robin fashion. Then, each PCP independently ranked thei

SUBMITTER: Tanner RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6939993 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature