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Qualitative Study Of Primary Care Clinicians' Views On Point-Of-Care Testing For C-Reactive Protein For Acute Respiratory Tract Infections In Family Medicine., Victoria Hardy, Matthew Thompson, Gina A Keppel, William Alto, M Ashworth Dirac, Jon Neher, Christopher Sanford, Jaime Hornecker, Allison Cole
Qualitative Study Of Primary Care Clinicians' Views On Point-Of-Care Testing For C-Reactive Protein For Acute Respiratory Tract Infections In Family Medicine., Victoria Hardy, Matthew Thompson, Gina A Keppel, William Alto, M Ashworth Dirac, Jon Neher, Christopher Sanford, Jaime Hornecker, Allison Cole
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OBJECTIVE: To explore clinicians views of the barriers and facilitators to use of C-reactive protein (CRP) point-of-care tests (POCT) in US family medicine clinics for the management of acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) in adults.
SETTING: Five family medicine clinics across two US states.
PARTICIPANTS: 30 clinicians including 18 physicians, 9 physician residents, 2 physician assistants and 1 nurse practitioner, took part in the study.
DESIGN: A qualitative study using a grounded theory approach to thematically analyse focus group interviews.
RESULTS: These clinicians had limited access to diagnostic tests for patients with ARTI, and very little knowledge of CRP POCT. …
Persuasive Interventions For Controversial Cancer Screening Recommendations: Testing A Novel Approach To Help Patients Make Evidence-Based Decisions., Barry Saver, Kathleen M Mazor, Roger Luckmann, Sarah L Cutrona, Marcela Hayes, Tatyana Gorodetsky, Nancy Esparza, Gonzalo Bacigalupe
Persuasive Interventions For Controversial Cancer Screening Recommendations: Testing A Novel Approach To Help Patients Make Evidence-Based Decisions., Barry Saver, Kathleen M Mazor, Roger Luckmann, Sarah L Cutrona, Marcela Hayes, Tatyana Gorodetsky, Nancy Esparza, Gonzalo Bacigalupe
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PURPOSE: We wanted to evaluate novel decision aids designed to help patients trust and accept the controversial, evidence-based, US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations about prostate cancer screening (from 2012) and mammography screening for women aged 40 to 49 years (from 2009).
METHODS: We created recorded vignettes of physician-patient discussions about prostate cancer screening and mammography, accompanied by illustrative slides, based on principles derived from preceding qualitative work and behavioral science literature. We conducted a randomized crossover study with repeated measures with 27 men aged 50 to 74 years and 35 women aged 40 to 49 years. All participants saw …