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(Circulation. 2002;106:e9017.)
© 2002 American Heart Association, Inc.

Cardiovascular News

Ruth SoRelle, MPH

Circulation Newswriter

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Patient Education Now Available at Two Sites

A new American Heart Association–sponsored web site, Heart Profilers, is an important and powerful online tool designed "to help patients diagnosed with congestive heart failure, atrial fibrillation, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and coronary artery disease make informed decisions and participate in their own treatment," said Clyde D. Yancy, MD, Chairman of the Editorial Board for the new web page. This new tool will be discussed thoroughly in an essay that will be published soon in Circulation.

Combined with the Circulation patient page entitled "Cardiology Patient Page," recently inaugurated by the journal at http://circ.ahajournals.org/collected/patient.shtml, the new web tools provide patients with the most advanced, complete, and accurate information about heart disease that is available on the Web today. Heart Profilers can be found at the American Heart Association site at www.americanheart.org/profilers.

Through Heart Profilers, patients can obtain personalized reports of scientifically accurate treatment options, lists of questions to ask during their visit with the physician, and other information they need to participate in their treatment. Heart Profilers also provides physicians with information about managing their patient’s treatment through the Professional Heart Profiler, according to the description of the new page. It lists types of studies, abstracts of case studies that mimic patient presentations, and cites relevant studies for physician consideration. Through Heart Profilers, physicians have access to treatment options on the basis of the precise disease state of each person.

The program was demonstrated at the March 2002 meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Atlanta. Heart Profilers is a joint . . . [Full Text of this Article]