December 16, 2019

Results of an Expert Delphi Consensus Survey on Clinical Scenarios Considered When Initiating Oral Prostacyclin Pathway Agents for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Results of an Expert Consensus Survey on the Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension with Oral Prostacyclin Pathway Agents

Vallerie V McLaughlin, MD, FACC, FCCP; Richard Channick, MD; Teresa De Marco, MD, FACC, FHFSA; Harrison W Farber, MD, FCCP; Sean Gaine, MD, PhD; Nazzareno Galié, MD; Richard A Krasuski, MD; Ioana Preston, MD; Rogerio Souza, MD, PhD; J Gerry Coghlan, MD; Robert P. Frantz, MD; Anna Hemnes, MD; Nick H Kim, MD; Irene M Lang, MD; David Langleben, MD; Mengtao Li, MD; Olivier Sitbon MD, PhD; Victor Tapson, MD; Adaani Frost, MD

Funding was provided by Actelion to support the use of independent providers of Delphi methodology expertise and nominal group technique, survey creation, data analysis, medical communication, and meeting management. The authors were not paid an honorarium for their participation. Actelion played no role in the literature search and analysis, development of surveys used to gather consensus, or data analysis; and no Actelion employee was present at the meeting during which consensus statements were finalized. The manuscript was drafted, critically reviewed, and edited solely by the authors with support from an independent professional medical communications agency. Actelion Pharmaceuticals reviewed the final manuscript only to ensure accuracy of UPTRAVI® (selexipag) background ...

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