Applicability of European Society of Cardiology guidelines according to gross national income.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To assess the feasibility to comply with the recommended actions of ESC guidelines on general cardiology areas in 102 countries and assess how compliance relates to the country's income level.

Methods and results

All recommendations from seven ESC guidelines on general cardiology areas were extracted and labelled on recommended actions. A survey was sent to all 102 ESC national and affiliated cardiac societies (NCSs). Respondents were asked to score recommended actions on their availability in clinical practice on a four-point Likert scale (fully available, mostly/often available, mostly/often unavailable, fully unavailable), and select the top three barriers perceived as being responsible for limiting their national availability. Applicability was assessed overall, per

SUBMITTER: van Dijk WB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9925274 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature