Presentation of Benefits and Harms in US Cancer Screening and Prevention Guidelines: Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cancer prevention and screening guidelines are ideally suited to the task of providing high-quality benefit-harm information that informs clinical practice. We systematically examined how US guidelines present benefits and harms for recommended cancer prevention and screening interventions.

Methods

We included cancer screening and prevention recommendations from: 1) the United States Preventive Services Task Force, 2) the American Cancer Society, 3) the American College of Physicians, 4) the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, and 5) other US guidelines within the National Guidelines Clearinghouse. Searches took place November 20, 2013, and January 1, 2014, and updates were reviewed through July 1, 2015. Two coders used an abstraction form to code information a

SUBMITTER: Caverly TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5009951 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature