How do we achieve informed choice for women considering breast screening?

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 144-146

  Hersch, Jolyn ^a,b   Jansen, Jesse ^a,b   Irwig, Les ^a   Barratt, Alexandra ^b   Thornton, Hazel ^c   Howard, Kirsten ^b   McCaffery, Kirsten ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community perspectives; Decision support techniques; Health communication; Informed decision making; Screening mammography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DECISION MAKING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 80052664183     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2011.06.013     Document Type: Article

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