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| Title |
Decisions on statin therapy by patients’ opinions about survival gains: cross sectional survey of general practitioners
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| Published in |
BMC Primary Care, July 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12875-015-0288-8 |
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| Authors |
Peder A. Halvorsen, Olaf Gjerløw Aasland, Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen |
| Abstract |
Guidelines for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease provide little guidance on how patients' preferences should be taken into account. We wanted to explore whether general practitioners (GPs) are sensitive to patient preferences regarding survival gains from statin therapy. In a cross sectional, online survey 3,270 Norwegian GPs were presented with a 55 year old patient with an unfavourable cardiovascular risk profile. He expressed preferences for statin therapy by indicating a minimum survival gain that would be considered a substantial benefit. This survival gain varied across six versions of the vignette: 8, 4 and 2 years, and 12, 6 and 3 months, respectively. Participants were randomly allocated to one version only. We asked whether the GPs would recommend the patient to take a statin. Subsequently we asked the GPs to estimate the average survival gain of life long simvastatin therapy for patients with a similar risk profile. We received 1,296 responses (40 %). Across levels of survival gains (8 years to 3 months) the proportion of GPs recommending statin therapy did not vary significantly (OR per level 1.07, 95 % CI 0.99 to 1.16). The GP's own estimate of survival gain was a statistically significant predictor of recommending therapy (OR per year adjusted for the GPs' age, sex, speciality attainment and number of patients listed 3.07, CI 2.55 to 3.69). GPs were insensitive to patient preferences regarding survival gain when recommending statin therapy. The GPs' recommendations were strongly associated with their own estimates of survival gain. |
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| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
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| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 2 | 100% |
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| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Other | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 December 2017.
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#16,046,765
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#1,529
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#145,912
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#24
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