OBJECTIVE Previous publications demonstrated that the presentation of treatment benefits in terms of relative risk reduction (RRR) rather than in terms of absolute risk reduction (ARR) or number of patients to treat (NNT) might favor the perception of outcome effectiveness. The objective was to perform a cognitive evaluation to assess how the manner in which risks and benefits of screening meth...

Creation of training and credentialing standards for cervicocerebral angiography, angioplasty, and stenting, published in this issue of Neurology,1 acknowledges an important reality: the cardiologists are coming. A force of over 4,500 interventional cardiologists,2 having already moved from the heart to the renal and peripheral arteries, having stood up to cardiothoracic surgeons and won, is ra...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2015.10.007 2352-3964/© 2015 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V I read with great interest in the article entitled “Practice patterns for physicians to use tests/procedures rather than simply provide clinioutpatients with stable coronary artery disease: a case vignette-based survey among French cardiologists” presented by Christophe Bauters and colleagues in...

PURPOSE There has been an increase in awareness of the link between oral health and systemic health in recent years. While questions exist about the relationship of oral disease to cardiovascular conditions, no published study to date has addressed cardiologists' knowledge and opinions about this area of science. This study examined North Carolina cardiologists' knowledge, opinions and practice...

The editorial comment of last December’s issue of the Netherlands Heart Journal pointed to our paper in that same issue, in which Dutch cardiologists’ knowledge about the effects of cardiovascular agents on sexual function was evaluated (1, 2). Our previous work had already shown that 42 % of cardiologists indicated a need for training to increase their knowledge about sexual function in patien...

In 614 consecutive hospitalizations with the primary discharge diagnosis of diagnosis-related group (DRG) 127 (heart failure and shock), we sought to assess the effect of caregiver specialty (generalist, n = 217; cardiologist, n = 397) on hospital costs, length of stay, and in-hospital mortality. Patients treated by cardiologists were younger (68 vs 71 years) and less likely to have hypertensio...

OBJECTIVE To examine process of care and outcome for patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction to hospitals in England and Wales in relation to type of consultant care and type of hospital. DESIGN Observational study of 88,782 patients admitted with myocardial infarction during 2004-5, using records from the national audit of myocardial infarction project (MINAP) database. OUTCOME ...

BACKGROUND Workforce experts predict a future shortage of cardiologists that is expected to impact rural areas more severely than urban areas. However, there is little research on how rural patients are currently served through clinical outreach. This study examines the impact of cardiology outreach in Iowa, a state with a large rural population, on participating cardiologists and on patient ac...

OBJECTIVE Informed consent is central to ethical medical practice, but little is known about how the process takes place in clinical practice. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a common revascularisation procedure. Studies report that patients overestimate benefits, forget the risks and are unaware of alternative treatments. The aim of this study was to describe PCI patients' and card...

BACKGROUND Cardiologists are distributed unevenly across regions of the United States. It is unknown whether patients in regions with fewer cardiologists have worse outcomes after hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or heart failure (HF). METHODS AND RESULTS Using Medicare administrative claims data from 2010, we examined the relationship between regional density of cardiolo...