2017 AHA/ACC/HRS guideline for management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death: a report of the American College …

SM Al-Khatib, WG Stevenson, MJ Ackerman… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - jacc.org
The recommendations listed in this clinical practice guideline are, whenever possible,
evidence-based. An initial extensive evidence review, which included literature derived from …

[HTML][HTML] Establishing the effectiveness of patient decision aids: key constructs and measurement instruments

KR Sepucha, CM Borkhoff, J Lally, CA Levin… - BMC medical informatics …, 2013 - Springer
Background Establishing the effectiveness of patient decision aids (PtDA) requires evidence
that PtDAs improve the quality of the decision-making process and the quality of the choice …

Clinical outcomes after continuous-flow left ventricular assist device: a systematic review

CK McIlvennan, KH Magid, AV Ambardekar… - Circulation: Heart …, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Conveying the complex trade-offs of continuous-flow left ventricular assist
devices is challenging and made more difficult by absence of an evidence summary for the …

[HTML][HTML] Defining advance care planning for adults: a consensus definition from a multidisciplinary Delphi panel

RL Sudore, HD Lum, JJ You, LC Hanson… - Journal of pain and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Context Despite increasing interest in advance care planning (ACP) and previous ACP
descriptions, a consensus definition does not yet exist to guide clinical, research, and policy …

Decision making in advanced heart failure: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

LA Allen, LW Stevenson, KL Grady, NE Goldstein… - Circulation, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc
Shared decision making for advanced heart failure has become both more challenging and
more crucial as duration of disease and treatment options have increased. High-quality …

Health literacy and outcomes among patients with heart failure

PN Peterson, SM Shetterly, CL Clarke, DB Bekelman… - Jama, 2011 - jamanetwork.com
Context Little is known about the effects of low health literacy among patients with heart
failure, a condition that requires self-management and frequent interactions with the health …

An electronically delivered patient-activation tool for intensification of medications for chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: the EPIC-HF trial

LA Allen, G Venechuk, CK McIlvennan, RL Page… - Circulation, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Major gaps exist in the routine initiation and dose up-titration of guideline-
directed medical therapies (GDMT) for patients with heart failure with reduced ejection …

Who is susceptible to online health misinformation? A test of four psychosocial hypotheses.

LD Scherer, J McPhetres, G Pennycook… - Health …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Health misinformation on social media threatens public health. One question that
could lend insight into how and through whom misinformation spreads is whether certain …

Patients' perspectives on tapering of chronic opioid therapy: a qualitative study

JW Frank, C Levy, DD Matlock, SL Calcaterra… - Pain …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Objective. There is inadequate evidence of long-term benefit and growing evidence of the
risks of chronic opioid therapy (COT). Opioid dose reduction, or opioid tapering, may reduce …

Frailty and the selection of patients for destination therapy left ventricular assist device

KM Flint, DD Matlock, JA Lindenfeld… - Circulation: Heart …, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc
Frailty is the aggregation of subclinical physiological insults across many organ systems
resulting in a syndrome of heightened vulnerability in the face of stress. Measures of frailty …