Development and Piloting of a Patient-Centered Report Design for Stress Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Results.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The management of coronary disease epitomizes the call to better engage patients in shared medical decision-making. Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is the foundation of diagnosis, risk stratification, and subsequent therapy; however, MPI reports are currently interpretable by specialists but not patients.

Objective

To design and test a patient-centered report for stress MPI test results.

Design, setting, and participants

This qualitative study of outpatients who underwent an MPI stress test and clinicians used a mixed methods approach. Phase 1 (December 2018 to July 2019) used qualitative methods to design a patient-centered reporting tool, with 5 focus groups with 36 patients and 2 focus groups with 27 clinicians. Phase 2 (June to September 2019) consis

SUBMITTER: Patel KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8379654 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature