How Clinicians Manage Their Patients Who May Need Antithrombotic Care

Health conditions requiring antithrombotic therapy are highly prevalent in Canada, contributing substantially to healthcare costs and patient quality of life. For example, over 60,000 Canadians will experience a heart attack per year.1 Alarming statistics such as this warrant appropriate treatment approaches from clinicians who specialize in cardiovascular conditions. The CCC is a national conference during which individuals with an interest or expertise in cardiovascular health from across the country attend. Leveraging this unique opportunity by implementing a simple educational endeavour during the 2023 event can provide instrumental insights on the most appropriate treatments recommended from the latest clinical practice guidelines to a wide set of practitioners; this could, in turn, potentially improve patient health outcomes.

This endeavour will take place at a set date from October 25th to 29th, 2023. Attendees of the CCC who approach a booth set up by the lead investigator of this project will be presented with the study letter of information and consent form on a tablet (i.e., an iPad). After providing an electronic informed consent to participate, a series of patient case scenarios that require antithrombotic care and therapy will be shown. For each case scenario, the attendee (now, considered a study participant) will be asked to indicate the treatment approach that he/she would choose. And finally, after reviewing all case scenarios and selecting the best treatment approach to his/her knowledge, the participant will be asked to provide an email address (which could be an anonymized one) to send the most appropriate treatment approaches for each case scenario. This last step allows the participant an educational opportunity to learn what the best practice approach is based on the most up-to-date clinical practice guidelines. The approximate total duration of the study is one-hour in total.