14th Vietnam National Congress of Cardiology
Da Nang, Vietnam
October 11-14, 2014
Choosing Wisely in the ICU
What Works and What Doesn’t
Gregory W. Barsness, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI
Director, Mayo Clinic Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Director, Mayo Clinic EECP Laboratory
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Disclosures
No pertinent financial conflicts
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Learning Objectives
• Identify Top 5 ICU practices that DON’T work
• Costly
• Ineffective or harmful
• Ethical practice concerns
• Identify high-yield strategies that DO benefit ICU
patients
• Patient Activation and Adherence
• Understand the systems approach to optimizing
ICU care
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Process Adherence and Outcome
In-hosp mortality (%)
7
6
5.95
5.16
5
4
3
Adjusted
Unadjusted
6.33
5.07
4.97
4.63
4.16
4.17
Every 10% in guidelines adherence
2
11% in mortality
1
0
<=25%
25-50%
50-75%
>=75%
Hospital composite quality quartiles
Peterson, et al. ACC 2004
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Things That Don’t Work in ICU
Choosing Wisely Campaign
• Much of current US care is duplicative, unnecessary
and/or potentially harmful
• Up to 30% of care activities may not improve
patient health or well-being
• Partnership between ABIM and Consumer Reports
• Assist physicians and patients to identify overuse
• Lessons learned applicable to developing systems
• Avoid waste, increase quality
• Able to shift resources to priority health needs
• Collaborative use of limited resources
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Excessive Testing
Imperative to Reduce Waste
• Common diagnostic tests often ordered at recurring
intervals (rather than as necessary)
• CXR, ECG, WBC, serum chemistries
• Increases costs without benefit and may lead to harm
• Excessive phlebotomy, nutritional issues
• “False” positives
• Statistical boundaries (95% CI)
• Unnecessary evaluation of non-pathological
test results with associated morbidity
• “Test only when the result matters”
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Transfusion in Critical Illness or Bleeding
Pooled Meta-Analysis in 2364 Patients
MACE
Salpeter, et al. AJM 2014
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Transfusion in Critical Illness or Bleeding
Pooled Meta-Analysis in 2364 Patients
In-Hospital Mortality
Restrictive transfusion trigger of Hgb <7:
NNT to prevent 1 death is 33
Salpeter, et al. AJM 2014
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Things That Do Work in ICU
• Infection Surveillance and Control
• Collaborative Engagement of healthcare team
• Patient Activation and Adherence
• Shared decision-making
• Public education campaigns
• Community-based Hypertension
Management, Vietnam National Heart Inst.
• Engage entire community in education
• Committed healthcare workers reinforce
lessons of benefit of hypertension control
Quang Ngoc Nguyen, et al. Plos One 2012
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Critical Illness Care
Patient and Family Perspective
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Costs of Non-Adherence
• Social Cost
• 125,000 deaths per year in US
• 33-69% of medication-related admissions
• Economic Cost
• $100-300 billion in direct and indirect costs
“Drugs don’t work in patients who don’t take them.”
C. Everett Koop, MD
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Medication “Noncompliance”
Incidence and Implications
• Mayo: 20% not taking prescribed clopidogrel 414 months after DES
(Mayo Clinic, unpublished data)
• Stent thrombosis occurred in 1 of 4 patients who
discontinued antiplatelet therapy
(Iakovou et al. 2005 JAMA)
• Dual antiplatelet compliance may depend on
communication and education
(Garavalia et al. 2011 Eur J Cardiovasc Nurs )
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PREMIER Registry
Thienopyridine D/C After DES for MI
2498 pts at 19 US sites
Mortality
500 DES-treated MI pts
with thienopyridine
prior to discharge
13.6% discontinuation
by 30 days after DES
(12.1% DC all meds)
Risk factors:
Age
Socio-economic
Pre-existing disease
Spertus et al. Circ 2006
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How to Improve Adherence
Decision Aids in Acute Setting
• Non-preference sensitive
• Weight of evidence favors one option
• Emergency treatment
• Technical decisions (stent size)
• Preference-sensitive decisions
• Alternative, valid options (“equipoise”)
• Trade-off for risks vs. benefits
• or requires patient motivation
Wennberg et al. Health Affairs 2002
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How to Improve Adherence
Decision Aids in Follow-Up
• Non-preference sensitive
• Weight of evidence favors one option
• Emergency treatment
• Technical decisions (stent size)
• Preference-sensitive decisions
• Alternative, valid options (“equipoise”)
• Trade-off for risks vs. benefits
• or requires patient motivation
Wennberg et al. Health Affairs 2002
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Decision Aid After AMI
15% 6-Mo Mortality Risk (GRACE Score)
150
850
75
75
850
Shah et al. AHA 2012
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Randomized Shared-Decision Making
Medication Adherence at 6 Months
106 Patients with AMI
Shah et al. AHA 2012
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Long-Term Medication Adherence
Impact of Reinforcement
292 Post-MI Patients in Olmsted County
Cardiac Rehabilitation enrollment: RR 0.66-0.70
Mild association of smoking with nonadherence
No other identified risks
Shah, et al. AJM 2009
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Medication Persistence
Impact of Cardiac Rehab Enrollment
100%
Year 1
Year 3
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
Statin
Aspirin
ACEI/ARB
Beta
Blocker
Courtesy T. Allison
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Conclusions
• Avoiding unnecessary testing and treatments is
cost effective and associated with improved
outcomes
• Avoid harm and reallocate scarce resources
• Non-adherence has significant associated
social and economic costs
• >100 different associated factors
• System intervention and adherence to
evidence-based practices may improve
compliance and outcome
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