PURPOSE An informed decision to accept a health care intervention requires an
understanding of its likely benefit. This study assessed participants' estimates of the benefit …

Background: How physicians communicate the risks and benefits of medical care may
influence patients' choices. Ways to communicate the benefits of risk-reducing drug …

Data from several sources, including consumer surveys, physician surveys, and medical
record audits, indicate that consumers do not receive cancer screening tests as …

Background: To explore the willingness of primary care providers (PCPs) to encourage
enrollment of patients into cancer prevention trials. Methods: A self-administered survey was …

Our objective was to describe the development and validation of an instrument for
measuring physician readiness to change cancer screening and counseling. We designed a …

Decision making around preventive health screening by family physicians, other health care
practitioners, and patients has become increasingly complex and controversial in recent …

Objective To describe decision process and quality for common cancer screening and
medication decisions by age group. Methods We included 2941 respondents to a national …

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OBJECTIVE To compare the influence of physicians' recommendations and patients' anxiety
or expectations on the decision to order four cancer screening tests in clinical situations …

▪ The likelihood of developing many diseases is predicted by levels of risk factors. Many
public health strategies have been created to apply interventions (for example, drugs, diets …