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New Study Shows Patients Know Little About Conservative Treatment Options for Coronary Artery Disease

Posted on March 2, 2012 by
Nine out of 10 Medicare patients who received a stent procedure for coronary disease report that their physicians did not present them with the non-invasive alternative of managing their condition with medication, according to the results of a study published online today by the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Floyd J. Fowler Jr., senior scientific advisor at the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, was the study's principal investigator. Continue reading →
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