Peter B Anderson, Zachary J Wanken, Jennifer L Perri, Jesse A Columbo, Ravinder Kang, Emily L Spangler, Karina Newhall, Benjamin S Brooke, Hasan Dosluoglu, Eugene S Lee, Joseph D Raffetto, Peter K Henke, Gale L Tang, Leila Mureebe, Panagiotis Kougias, Jason Johanning, Shipra Arya, Salvatore T Scali, David H Stone, Bjoern D Suckow, Kristine Orion, Vivienne Halpern, Jessica O'Connell, Daniel Inhat, Peter Nelson, Edith Tzeng, Wei Zhou, Michael Barry, Brenda Sirovich, Philip P Goodney
OBJECTIVE: Shared medical decision making is most important when there are competing options for repair such as in treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). We sought to understand the sources of patients' pre-existing knowledge about AAA to better inform treating physicians about patients' needs for preoperative counseling. METHODS: We performed a multicenter survey of patients facing AAA repair at 20 Veterans Affairs hospitals across the United States as part of the Preferences for Open Versus Endovascular Repair of AAA study...
February 2020: Journal of Vascular Surgery