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ReviewJournal of general internal medicine2016

An Individualized Approach to Cancer Screening Decisions in Older Adults: A Multilevel Framework.

Erica S Breslau, Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin, Heather M Edwards, Mara A Schonberg, Nicole Saiontz, Louise C Walter

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Review in Journal of general internal medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Erica S BreslauHealthcare Delivery Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD, 20850-9761, USA. breslaue@mail.nih.gov.
Sherri Sheinfeld GorinFrederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick, MD, 21702, USA.
Heather M EdwardsPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Washington, 20036, DC, USA.
Mara A SchonbergDepartment of Medicine, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 02215, MA, USA.
Nicole SaiontzOffice of the Director, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850-9761, MD, USA.
Louise C WalterDepartment of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, University of California San Francisco and the San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, 94121, CA, USA.

Funding

Breast Cancer Risk Factors Among Women Aged 75 and OlderR01AG041869 · NIA · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI SCHONBERG, MARA A · 2013 to 2015
$1.4M
Midcareer Mentoring Award for Patient-Oriented Research in AgingK24AG041180 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI WALTER, LOUISE C. · 2011 to 2016
$909k
CCR NIH HHS HHSN261200800001CNCI NIH HHS HHSN261200800001ENIA NIH HHS K24 AG041180NIA NIH HHS K24AG041180NIA NIH HHS R01 AG041869
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Guidelines for optimal cancer screening in older adults remain unclear, particularly for adults over the age of 75. While cancer screening in older adults may benefit some in good health, it may cause unnecessary burdens in others with limited life expectancy. Thus, a systematic approach to enable individualized cancer screening decisions in older adults is needed. We suggest a framework that guides such decisions through evidence-based approaches from multiple interactions, and that involves the patient, clinician, and healthcare system. An individualized approach considers differences in disease risk rather than the chronological age of the patient. This paper presents a comprehensive framework that depicts the independent and converging levels of influences on individualized cancer screening decisions in older adults. This Individualized Decisions for Screening (IDS) framework recognizes the reality of these interrelationships, including the tensions that arise when behaviors and outcomes are valued differently at the patient, clinician, and healthcare organization levels. Person-centered approaches are essential to advancing multilevel research of individualized cancer screening decisions among older adults.

Indexed as

Decision MakingAgedEarly Detection of CancerHealth Services for the AgedHumansNeoplasmsPhysician-Patient RelationsFrameworkGeriatricIndividualized screeningMultilevelShared decision making

Identifiers

PMID26941042
PMCPMC4835387

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