Hyperkalaemia and hypokalaemia outpatient management: a survey of 500 French general practitioners.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

How general practitioners (GPs) manage dyskalaemia is currently unknown. This study aimed at describing GP practices regarding hypokalaemia or hyperkalaemia diagnosis and management in their outpatients.

Methods and results

A telephone survey was conducted among French GPs with a 20-item questionnaire (16 closed-ended questions and 12 open-ended questions) regarding their usual management of hypokalaemia or hyperkalaemia patients, both broadly and more specifically in patients with heart failure and/or chronic kidney disease and/or in patients treated with angiotensin-converting enzyme/angiotensin receptor blockers or mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists. We aimed to interview 500 GPs spread geographically throughout France. This descriptive survey results are present

SUBMITTER: Abensur Vuillaume L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7524073 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature