Last chance to register is 4pm BC time today! Come learn about HF from a great lineup of speakers

Unfortunately there are currently no standards for the reporting of surrogate endpoints in trials, which would help to assess robustness. There is an ongoing project (CONSORT-SURROGATE) that seeks to address this. Follow SPIRIT|CONSORT-SURROGATE for updates 9/9 trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

*Out now* Our patient decision aid for SGLT2i (aka flozins) in patients with heart failure and ejection fraction >40% The decision aid: cfp.ca/content/cfp/su… Brief article describing how we developed it & evidence used: cfp.ca/content/cfp/69… Blair MacDonald Dr. Sheri Koshman, PharmD

Haven't had a chance to dive into the recent HFSA Scientific Statement on iron deficiency in HF (IDHF)? See below for a tweetorial of the highlights! Journal of Cardiac Failure: onlinejcf.com/article/S1071-… Greg Lewis Craig Beavers, PharmD, FACC, FAHA, FCCP, BCCP,CACP Ioannis Mastoris Nosheen Reza, MD, MS Robert Mentz, MD @KPHeartDoc Javed Butler

Now out in JAMA Network Open, our look at integration of shared decision-making (SDM) in medication recommendations in CV guidelines over the past decade - jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… Blair MacDonald UBC Pharm Sci CORE UBC 1/

It’s out! Delighted to introduce the new CCS guidelines on #antiplatelet therapy, chaired by Kevin Bainey and I, with a group of 21 primary 🇨🇦 panelists. shorturl.at/pJRWZ Shamir Mehta Emilie Belley-Côté, MD, PhD Ricky Turgeon PharmD Marie Lordkipanidzé Brian J Potter Michelle Graham

This is fabulous! Thanks Perspectives (PME) for creating this special collection. So many writers have asked me how they can find all the Writer's Craft pieces - now it's as easy as one click!

Some disproven misconceptions about shared decision-making journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17… - Concise overview of key myths/misunderstandings re: SDM & practical tips for pharmacists (& any other clinicians) on how to ease into implementing SDM in their practice Blair MacDonald Canadian Pharmacists Journal

Is Pharmacokinetics your thing? Come join us at Dal! Fantastic city, incredible place to work! dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/15181

Our new systematic review & meta-analysis of the impact of SGLT2i in heart failure across LVEF spectrum: cjcopen.ca/article/S2589-… As with HF hospitalization & CV death (but not all-cause death), the effect of SGLT2i on QoL is consistent irrespective of LVEF & over time

Delighted to finally get the British Society for Heart Failure #theFword Multiprofessional Heart Failure Self-Development Framework 💔 into print Open Heart, along with amazing coauthors incl Runningduck Kirsty Hughes Susan Young Ruby May James cheryl Becky Jones et al openheart.bmj.com/content/11/1/e…

What timing! The full paper of our evaluation of the PHARM-HF clinic is now live JACCP accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Walking or jogging, yoga, and strength training seem to be the most effective exercises to ease depression, either alone or alongside established treatments such as psychotherapy and drugs, suggests NEW study Michael Noetel🔸 bmj.com/content/384/bm…

Congratulations to our new Director of the College of Pharmacy - Dr. Kyle Wilby (Kyle Wilby)! Dr. Kyle Wilby is an Associate Professor (with promotion to Full Professor effective July 1, 2024) and Associate Director of Program Evaluation in the College. dal.ca/faculty/health…

Previously established that relative effects almost always similar constant across high and low risk subgroups. Now compelling new evidence the same is true for comorbidity: relative effects constant across high and low comorbidity subgroups. doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Among patients with obesity-related heart failure with preserved ejection fraction & type 2 diabetes, semaglutide produced greater reductions in symptoms, physical limitations & body weight than placebo at 1 year. Full STEP-HFpEF DM trial results: nej.md/3TPKpUC #ACC24

ICYMI, our study of decisional needs of patients with HF re: medications is now in Circ: Heart Failure available as open access. The central figure puts all the key themes together, but take a look at the full article for extra details & quotes from participants 1/3 ahajournals.org/doi/epdf/10.11…

Let's spend our already limited clinic time with our patients with heart failure on the interventions that actually help them. Sodium restriction isn't one of these! Sodium Restriction in Heart Failure: Beneficial or pouring salt in the wound? cfpclearn.ca/tfp368/

As instrument for assessing clinical practice guideline quality AGREE 2 has major limitations including complexity and burden. NEATS more straightforward, but limitations of clarity. Just published NEATS modification much improved. doi.org/10.1002/gin2.1…

Since we'll likely never get an RCT of different medication sequencing strategies (what to start/titrate when) for HF with reduced ejection fraction, we modeled it using microsimulation. Out now in CMAJ cmaj.ca/content/196/36… TLDR: Faster is more effective + very cost-effective