Table 5.
Agreement between Hypothetical Treatment Responses and Observed Practice
Hypothetical | Observed | Agreement | OR (95% CI) | |
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Statin Use Rate | ||||
Diabetes (n=1496) | 1263 (84.4%) | 1021 (68.3%) | 63.6% | 1.20 (0.90, 1.61) |
High risk/high LDL-C (n=457) | 432 (94.5%) | 175 (38.3%) | 38.5% | 0.65 (0.29, 1.47) |
Low risk/high LDL-C (n=344) | 137 (39.8%) | 172 (50.0%) | 52.0% | 1.19 (0.77, 1.83) |
Addition of Non-Statin Lipid-Lowering Treatment | ||||
High LDL-C despite adherence to high intensity statin | 159 (55.2%) | 62 (21.5%) | 44.1% | 0.70 (0.40, 1.24) |
Non-statin lipid-lowering treatment included addition of ezetimibe in 11 patients, fibrate, fish oil or bile acid sequestrant in 57 patients
Agreement = % of patients treated the way clinician said they would treat in the corresponding hypothetical scenario.
OR = odds ratio for likelihood of treatment when comparing clinicians who reported likely vs. less likely to treat in hypothetical scenarios
CI = confidence interval; OR = odds ratio; All other abbreviations can be found in Table 1.