The authors of this article, published on the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine on January 13, 2025 say that guidelines recommend patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension be referred to pulmonary hypertension centers, but little is known about where care is actually delivered in the United States. Prescription patterns were used to estimate the proportion of care delivered at US pulmonary hypertension centers and explore factors associated with location of care. The analysis included 12.137 patients.
The study findings reveal that only a minority of US patients received pulmonary arterial hypertension-specific prescriptions from a pulmonary hypertension center. This potential guideline discordance, say the authors, warrants further exploration and may require guidelines to be revisited or the health system to adapt.
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