Doctors and patients recognize PAH symptom severity differently

Robyn Kalda
3 days ago
1 min read

As pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) patients became sicker, their self-reported quality of life was significantly worse than their doctors recognized. This discordance was associated both with worse health-related quality of life scores and a higher WHO functional class score, so the sickest patients had the least agreement with their doctors.

The researchers note that "it's self-evident that providers cannot deliver optimal treatment strategies nor best outcomes if they don't accurately assess symptom burden in PAH, so further research must bridge this information gap."

Read the Respiratory Medicine article

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