Januszkiewicz, Łukasz;
Barra, Sérgio;
Providencia, Rui;
Chun, Julian KR;
Conte, Giulio;
Farkowski, Michał M;
Guerra, Jose M;
... Boveda, Serge; + view all
(2023)
Regional disparity on patient characteristics and perceptions after implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation: results from an EHRA patient survey.
EP Europace
, Article euad110. 10.1093/europace/euad110.
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Abstract
AIMS: The aim of this study was to identify potential regional disparities in characteristics of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) recipients, patient perceptions and perspectives after implantation and level of information provided to patients. METHODS AND RESULTS: The prospective, multicentre, and multinational European Heart Rhythm Association patient Survey 'Living with an ICD' included patients already implanted with an ICD (median ICD dwell time - 5 years, interquartile range 2-10). An online questionnaire was filled-in by patients invited from 10 European countries. A total of 1809 patients (the majority in their 40s to 70s, 65.5% men) were enrolled, with 877 (48.5%) from Western Europe (group 1), followed by 563 from Central/Eastern Europe (group 2, 31.1%), and 369 from Southern Europe (group 3, 20.4%). A total of 52.9% of Central/Eastern Europe patients reported increased satisfaction after ICD placement compared with 46.6% from Western and 33.1% from Southern Europe (1 vs. 2 P = 0.047, 1 vs. 3 P < 0.001, 2 vs. 3 P < 0.001). About 79.2% of Central/Eastern and 76.0% of Southern Europe patients felt optimally informed at the time of device implantation compared with just 64.6% from Western Europe (1 vs. 2 P < 0.001, 1 vs. 3 P < 0.001, 2 vs. 3 P = ns). CONCLUSIONS: While physicians in Southern Europe should address the patients' concerns about the impact of the ICD on quality of life, physicians from Western Europe should focus on improving the quality of information provided to their prospective ICD patients. Novel strategies to address regional differences in patients' quality of life and provision of information are warranted.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Regional disparity on patient characteristics and perceptions after implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation: results from an EHRA patient survey |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/europace/euad110 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euad110 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
| Keywords: | Geographical differences, Outcome, Registry |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Health Informatics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10169682 |
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