Big Mismatch In Risk Perception Between Heart Failure Patients and Their Physicians

There’s a big discrepancy between the way patients with “advanced” heart failure view themselves and the way their doctors view them, a new study published in JACC: Heart Failure shows. In a cohort of 161 ambulatory patients with advanced heart failure, physicians categorized 111 patients (69%) as being at high risk for urgent transplant, LVAD,…

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