PLASTY SURVEY

ANGIOGRAM/PLASTY SURVEY ^{Friday, 26 Feb-2010, 6:39 am}
	Patient View, a respected organisation is asking people who have had an angiogram or angioplasty to fill in a short online survey about their experience the aim being to help future patients. You can click PATIENT VIEW for more information and the form. Dear Hearts of Salford,PatientView is approaching your organisation on patients’ views of cardiac care, to ask if you would like to post onto your website details about the following survey of patients on two cardiac care procedures, or circulate the study’s link to your patient members. The results of the [published results of the survey (expected end-2010) will be sent to all patient organisations that have taken part in the study.Thank you, and kind regards, Dr Alexandra Wyke. Heart care: Study into patients’ opinions on two important hospital procedures This study is asking people with circulatory problems, or a heart condition, or a possible heart condition, for their opinions on two common but important hospital procedures that doctors use in the treatment of heart problems—*angiogram and angioplasty* [for an explanation of the meaning of the two terms, see the bottom of this email]. People giving their opinions to the study will be totally anonymous. The study hopes to find out what choices of treatment, what standards of services, and what quality of care are being given to people in the UK who have circulatory problems, and who have experienced one or other of the two medical procedures. At the moment, very little solid information is known across the UK about the experiences of these people. The study is being conducted by PatientView (a research/publishing company dedicated to raising awareness of patients’ views), and is being sponsored by an educational grant from St Jude Medical (a worldwide medical-devices manufacturer specialising in heart care). Your experiences, passed to the study, could help future patients. The study results will be sent to all patient groups that help to publicise the study. The results will also allow doctors (and manufacturers like St Jude) to understand far more about the wants and needs of the people who have to have an angiogram or an angioplasty. How to offer your views to this study The questionnaire has only 12 simple questions, and will probably take at most 15 minutes of your time to complete (depending on how many comments you wish to make). The study’s closing date is Monday 29th March 2010 (but PatientView would welcome your opinions before then, in order to draw up some initial trends).

ANGIOGRAM/PLASTY SURVEY

^{Friday, 26 Feb-2010, 6:39 am}

Patient View, a respected organisation is asking people who have had an angiogram or angioplasty to fill in a short online survey about their experience the aim being to help future patients. You can click PATIENT VIEW for more information and the form.

Dear Hearts of Salford,PatientView is approaching your organisation on patients’ views of cardiac care, to ask if you would like to post onto your website details about the following survey of patients on two cardiac care procedures, or circulate the study’s link to your patient members. The results of the [published results of the survey (expected end-2010) will be sent to all patient organisations that have taken part in the study.Thank you, and kind regards,

Dr Alexandra Wyke.

Heart care: Study into patients’ opinions on two important hospital procedures

This study is asking people with circulatory problems, or a heart condition, or a possible heart condition, for their opinions on two common but important hospital procedures that doctors use in the treatment of heart problems—angiogram and angioplasty [for an explanation of the meaning of the two terms, see the bottom of this email]. People giving their opinions to the study will be totally anonymous.

The study hopes to find out what choices of treatment, what standards of services, and what quality of care are being given to people in the UK who have circulatory problems, and who have experienced one or other of the two medical procedures. At the moment, very little solid information is known across the UK about the experiences of these people.

The study is being conducted by PatientView (a research/publishing company dedicated to raising awareness of patients’ views), and is being sponsored by an educational grant from St Jude Medical (a worldwide medical-devices manufacturer specialising in heart care).

Your experiences, passed to the study, could help future patients. The study results will be sent to all patient groups that help to publicise the study. The results will also allow doctors (and manufacturers like St Jude) to understand far more about the wants and needs of the people who have to have an angiogram or an angioplasty.

How to offer your views to this study

The questionnaire has only 12 simple questions, and will probably take at most 15 minutes of your time to complete (depending on how many comments you wish to make).

The study’s closing date is Monday 29th March 2010 (but PatientView would welcome your opinions before then, in order to draw up some initial trends).