Patient Attitudes Toward Individualized Recommendations to Stop Low-Value Colorectal Cancer Screening.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Guidelines for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening recommend an individualized approach in older adults that is informed by consideration of life expectancy and cancer risk. However, little is known about how patients perceive individualized screening recommendations.

Objective

To assess veterans' attitudes toward and comfort with cessation of low-value CRC screening (defined as screening in a patient for whom the benefit is expected to be small based on quantitative estimates from hypothetical risk calculators).

Design, setting, and participants

This survey study included patients older than 50 years who had undergone prior screening colonoscopy with normal results at the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System. A total of 1500 surveys were mailed to po

SUBMITTER: Piper MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324357 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature