Guideline Adherence

Healio spoke with Kaharu Sumino, MD, MPH, about a symposium presentation on asthma relievers from the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

CHICAGO — Patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer who tested positive for biomarkers and subsequently received guideline-recommended treatment had better outcomes, according to research presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.

Patients with diabetes who received care that did not adhere to the American Diabetes Association, or ADA, guidelines spent an extra $4,031 in annual health care costs compared with the prior year, a recent study found.

Defining eligibility criteria for initiation of guideline-directed medical therapy and new HF agents.

Suboptimal uses of statin therapy, aspirin prescription and lifestyle counseling persist for adults with atherosclerotic CVD, despite new guidelines emphasizing their effect on reduced mortality, researchers reported.

The majority of patients admitted for acute HF are eligible for foundational quadruple therapy and other medications, researchers reported in JACC: Heart Failure.

Complementary and alternative therapies for HF could potentially worsen symptoms and interact with prescribed medications, and clinicians and patients should be aware of a lack of federal regulation for such therapies, researchers wrote.

The benefits of HF medications are additive and incremental and provide similar benefits to patients with ischemic and nonischemic etiologies when initiated simultaneously, according to a speaker.

CHICAGO — A clinician level peer-to-peer consultation may increase use of and optimize guideline-directed medical therapy in patients with HFrEF hospitalized for any cause compared with usual care, a speaker reported.

A hospital-wide quality improvement initiative including adoption of institutional guidelines, new prescribing prompts and a teaching curriculum was associated with a reduction in the use and duration of triple therapy after PCI, data show.