Effect of a Mammography Screening Decision Aid for Women 75 Years and Older: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Guidelines recommend that women 75 years and older be informed of the benefits and harms of mammography before screening.

Objective

To test the effects of receipt of a paper-based mammography screening decision aid (DA) for women 75 years and older on their screening decisions.

Design, setting, and participants

A cluster randomized clinical trial with clinician as the unit of randomization. All analyses were completed on an intent-to-treat basis. The setting was 11 primary care practices in Massachusetts or North Carolina. Of 1247 eligible women reached, 546 aged 75 to 89 years without breast cancer or dementia who had a mammogram within 24 months but not within 6 months and saw 1 of 137 clinicians (herein referred to as PCPs) from November 3, 2014, to Janu

SUBMITTER: Schonberg MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7171581 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature