Table 5.

Potential barriers to prescribing preferred therapy in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)

Potential treatment barrier	Rank order response (N = 105), mean ± SD
Social circumstances prevent drug therapy compliance	2.3 ± 0.1
Comorbid psychological/psychiatric disease prevents drug therapy compliance	2.8 ± 0.1
Patients’ financial circumstances prevent access to drug therapy	3.2 ± 0.2
Patient refuses drug therapy	3.4 ± 0.1
Drug therapy is not provided by the pharmacy accessed by the patient or the healthcare provider	3.7 ± 0.1

^NoteAnswers are reported on the basis of a rank order scale (1 = most common barrier to PAH treatment, 5 = least common barrier to PAH treatment).