Becker's Healthcare October 8, 2024
Physician training in shared decision-making did not increase the proportion of older adults receiving their preferred CRC screening, Medscape Medical News reported Oct. 3.
New research published in JAMA in August considered recent guidelines recommending that shared decision-making be used when deciding if colonoscopies should be continued in patients over 75.
Here are 10 things to know about the study:
1. The impact of shared decision-making was evaluated in 59 physicians and 466 patients with a mean age of 80 years, sampled from 36 primary care clinics in Massachusetts and Maine.
2. Physicians received shared decision-making training and pre-visit electronic reminders to discuss CRC screening, which functioned as the intervention in the study, or only to give...
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