The authors of this article, titled “How your patient is really feeling: the emotional hinterland of a cardiac diagnosis“, published on the European Heart Journal on January 8, 2024, focus on the impact of receiving and living with a cardiac disease diagnosis, and in particular to the psychosocial aspects, which, they say, continue to be underrepresented in patient care and long-term follow-up. “Food for thought if you want to better understand what patients with a cardiac diagnosis are facing – written by and with patients”, says Susanne S. Pedersen, co-author together with Mattias Van Heetvelde, and Richard Mindham.
The paper advocates for the implementation of patient-centred, multidisciplinary, long-term support systems in the form of an interconnected network of professional and personal lifelines, made available to all cardiovascular disease patients.
Several patient representatives, members of the European Society of Cardiology Patient Forum, including Pisana Ferrari and Gergely Meszaros JD, MSc, are mentioned the acknowledgements section, for their contribution to the paper.
Citation
Richard Mindham, Mattias Van Heetvelde, Susanne S Pedersen, How your patient is really feeling: the emotional hinterland of a cardiac diagnosis, European Heart Journal, 2024; January 8, 2024, ehad840, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehad840
The article can be read at this link on the European Heart Journal website