Why are we failing to implement effective therapies in cardiovascular disease?

Source: European Heart Journal Area: Evidence > Medicines Management > References Worldwide, there are approx 18 million deaths each year from cardiovascular disease and at least 2-3 times as many experience non-fatal cardiovascular events.  Numerous evidence-based prevention and management guideline recommendations for cardiovascular disease are available.  However, significant gaps between the evidence and its implementation persist ('evidence-practice gap').  There exist 'under-use' gaps with lack of implementation of proven effective strategies and 'over-use' gaps with inappropriate use of strategies with strong evidence against, or insufficient evidence for their effectiveness and safety. To better tackle the global burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD), more effective strategies are needed.  The authors discuss three selected areas where advances in implementation research for CVD could provide improvements.  First, a better assessment and understanding of the most important modifiable context-specific barriers to ...
Source: NeLM - Cardiovascular Medicine - Category: Cardiology Source Type: news