Effective risk communication is crucial in older patients with atrial fibrillation and aortic stenosis to prevent inappropriate undertreatment and ensure shared decision-making.
Supports emphasis on risk communication for older AF and AS patients; leaves open optimal strategies and tools for shared decision-making.
Atrial fibrillation and aortic stenosis commonly present doctors and patients with difficult decisions about the risks and benefits of treatment options and are both often inappropriately undertreated. Patients may be confused by risk information and doctors may be aware of patients' limitations and use this to manipulate choices to the ones desired by the doctors. This paper examines the importance of risk communication and discusses difficulties that can arise in decision making in these two common cardiovascular conditions.
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Nigel Dudley (2001) studied this question.
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