Intensifying approaches to address clinical inertia among cardiovascular disease risk factors: A narrative review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Clinical inertia, the absence of treatment initiation or intensification for patients not achieving evidence-based therapeutic goals, is a primary contributor to poor clinical outcomes. Effectively combating clinical inertia requires coordinated action on the part of multiple representatives including patients, clinicians, health systems, and the pharmaceutical industry. Despite intervention attempts by these representatives, barriers to overcoming clinical inertia in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor control remain.

Methods

We conducted a narrative literature review to identify individual-level and multifactorial interventions that have been successful in addressing clinical inertia.

Results

Effective interventions included dynamic forms of patient a

SUBMITTER: Lewinski AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9675717 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature