Financial burden, distress, and toxicity in cardiovascular disease - 19/06/21
Highlights |
• | Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major source of financial burden and financial distress, which can cause psychological distress, cost-related care non-adherence or care deferral, and create tradeoffs with basic needs. |
• | To reduce financial distress, policymakers can expand insurance coverage, health systems can limit expenditure on low-benefit, high-cost treatments, physicians can engage in shared-decision-making for high-cost interventions, and community-based initiatives can support patients with system navigation and financial coping. |
• | Avenues for research include analysis of how healthcare policies affect financial burden, comparative effectiveness studies examining high and low-cost strategies for CVD management and testing interventions to reduce financial burden. |
Résumé |
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major source of financial burden and distress, which has 3 main domains: (1) psychological distress; (2) cost-related care non-adherence or medical care deferral, and (3) tradeoffs with basic non-medical needs. We propose 4 ways to reduce financial distress in CVD: (1) policymakers can expand insurance coverage and curtail underinsurance; (2) health systems can limit expenditure on low-benefit, high-cost treatments while developing services for high-risk individuals; (3) physicians can engage in shared-decision-making for high-cost interventions, and (4) community-based initiatives can support patients with system navigation and financial coping. Avenues for research include (1) analysis of how healthcare policies affect financial burden; (2) comparative effectiveness studies examining high and low-cost strategies for CVD management; and (3) studying interventions to reduce financial burden, financial coaching, and community health worker integration.
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Vol 238
P. 75-84 - août 2021 Retour au numéroBienvenue sur EM-consulte, la référence des professionnels de santé.
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