Annals of family medicine
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Annals of family medicine · Sep 2023
ReviewPatient Communication Preferences for Prostate Cancer Screening Discussions: A Scoping Review.
Prostate cancer screening guidelines have changed as new evidence showing an equivocal mortality benefit led many organizations to relax recommendations for this screening and instead suggest shared decision making. Presently, it is unknown how successfully these conversations happen. Our objective was to understand men's communication preferences when they discuss prostate cancer screening. ⋯ Our findings point to strategies to support men's communication preferences and address preconceptions surrounding prostate cancer screening. More studies are needed in certain underrepresented populations given the propensity for disparity in health outcomes.
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Annals of family medicine · Sep 2023
Patient and Clinician Sociodemographics and Sexual History Screening at a Multisite Federally Qualified Health Center: A Mixed Methods Study.
In 2018, there were 68 million sexually transmitted infections in the United States. Sexual history screening is an evidence-based practice endorsed by guidelines to identify risk of these infections and adverse sexual health outcomes. In this mixed methods study, we investigated patient- and clinician-level characteristics associated with receipt of sexual history screening, and contextualized these differences in more depth. ⋯ Interventions are needed to address the interplay between the social and contextual factors identified in this study, especially those that elicited discomfort, and the implementation of sexual history screening.