Decision Aid
VIDEO: Providing decision aids to patients with skin cancer can ease treatment process
ORLANDO — A skin cancer diagnosis can be very overwhelming for a patient. Sharing informative materials about treatment options may ease their minds, according to a speaker at the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery Annual Meeting.
Kidney therapy decision aid receives high acceptability marks from patients, caregivers
A new educational patient-decision aid received high acceptability ratings from older adults with kidney disease and their caregivers, according to published data.
ACC expert consensus pathway highlights ‘revolutionary’ advances in HFpEF management
HF with preserved ejection fraction is a complex condition with multiple overlapping comorbidities that requires timely diagnosis and optimal guideline-based therapies, according to new guidance from the American College of Cardiology.
BETTER CARE-HF
Two methods of informing providers when a patient with HFrEF is not on appropriate medical therapy — EHR alerts during patient encounters and messages in between encounters — vs. usual care.
Tailored EHR alert increases prescribing for recommended heart failure drug
NEW ORLEANS — An automated, patient-specific, electronic health record-embedded tool was associated with increased prescriptions of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists for patients with HF, the BETTER CARE-HF study showed.
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Efficacy of electronic health record-based decision support system vs. usual care in reducing major thromboembolic events in hospitalized patients.
Decision aid for replacement therapy improves decisional quality in older adults with CKD
An online and interactive decision aid about kidney replacement therapy improved decisional quality among older adults with advanced chronic kidney disease, according to data published in Annal Internal Medicine.
Conservative kidney management decision aid increases discussion of treatment
Offering a decision aid regarding conservative kidney management to patients with advanced kidney disease and their family led to increased discussion of the treatment option with providers, according to a study.
EHR-based decision support system helps prevent VTE in hospitalized patients
CHICAGO — In hospitalized medically ill patients, an electronic health record-based decision support system reduced major thromboembolic events compared with usual care, researchers reported.
Decision aids give patients with chronic kidney disease hope
Utilizing decision aids before discussing treatment options gives patients with chronic kidney disease hope and improves patients’ motivation to treat the disease, according to a speaker at the virtual Annual Dialysis Conference.