Communicating cardiovascular disease risk: an interview study of General Practitioners' use of absolute risk within tailored communication strategies

Conclusions: This study demonstrated how GPs use three different communication strategies to address the issue of CVD risk, depending on their perception of patient risk, motivation and anxiety. Absolute risk played a different role within each strategy. Providing GPs with alternative ways of explaining absolute risk, in order to achieve different communication aims, may improve their use of absolute CVD risk assessment in practice.
Source: BMC Family Practice - Category: Primary Care Authors: Source Type: research