Outcomes and Attributes Patients Value When Choosing Glucose-Lowering Medications: A Mixed-Methods Study
Elizabeth H Golembiewski1, Andrea E Garcia Bautista1, Eric Polley2
1Knowledge and Evaluation Research (KER) Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
Abstract:
This mixed-methods study sought to identify pharmacotherapy preferences among 40 noninsulin-treated adults with type 2 diabetes receiving care at two U.S. health care systems. Participants ranked by relative importance various health outcomes and medication attributes and then contextualized their rankings. Most participants ranked blindness (63%), death (60%), heart attack (48%), and heart failure (48%) as the most important health outcomes and glucose-lowering efficacy (68%) as the most important medication attribute, followed by oral administration (45%) and lack of gastrointestinal side effects (38%).
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