Patients who are hospitalized because of a heart attack are prescribed a number of medicines to help the heart heal. The investigators will examine different ways in which clinicians share information about those treatment options with patients and the impact that this can have on patients' choices and health.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
107
The decision aid describes the risk of dying in the first six months following a heart attack without and with taking a bundle of medications to help the heart heal.
Patients and clinicians in this arm will discuss medications to help the heart heal after a heart attack in their usual manner.
Saint Marys Hospital, Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Increases adherence to cardiac medications with proven benefits
Time frame: 6 months
Reduces patients' decisional conflict (increase patient decisional quality)
Time frame: During hospital stay
Decreases rehospitalization rates and death
Time frame: 5 weeks and 6 months
Increase patient knowledge of medication to help the heart heal
Time frame: During hospital stay
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