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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am Heart J. 2018 Mar 24;200:118–124. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2018.03.011

Table 5.

Agreement between Hypothetical Treatment Responses and Observed Practice

Hypothetical Observed Agreement OR (95% CI)
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.