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The Impact of a Risk-Based Breast Cancer Screening Decision Aid on Initiation of Mammography Among Younger Women: Report of a Randomized Trial.

Marilyn M Schapira, Rebecca A Hubbard, Holli H Seitz, Emily F Conant, Mitchell Schnall, Joseph N Cappella, Tory Harrington, Carrie Inge, Katrina Armstrong

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Article in MDM policy & practice. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

24 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Personalizing cancer risk: a systematic review of risk communication strategies.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2026
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  5. Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024
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  6. Web-based decision aids for cancer clinical decisions: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021
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  11. Skeptical reactions to breast cancer screening benefits and harms: Antecedents, consequences, and implications for screening communication.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Marilyn M SchapiraDepartment of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine.
Rebecca A HubbardCenter for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Department of Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Holli H SeitzDepartment of Communication, Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi.
Emily F ConantDepartment of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine.
Mitchell SchnallDepartment of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine.
Joseph N CappellaAnnenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Tory HarringtonDepartment of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine.
Carrie IngeDepartment of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine.
Katrina ArmstrongDepartment of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Breast Cancer ScreeningDecision AidMammographyShared Decision Making

Identifiers

PMID30729166
PMCPMC6350139

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