Patient education and counseling
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A systematic review of the literature was conducted to characterise patients' own experience of colonoscopy in the screening context. ⋯ Patient reported obstacles and barriers to screening colonoscopy needs to be addressed to improve adherence.
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Controlled Clinical Trial
Effects of an interactive tailored patient assessment tool on eliciting and responding to cancer patients' cues and concerns in clinical consultations with physicians and nurses.
To test the effect of Choice, an interactive tailored patient assessment tool (ITPA), on cancer patients' expressed cues and concerns (C&Cs), and clinicians' responses to these C&Cs. ⋯ The Choice ITPA proved to be an effective intervention for cancer patients to express more C&Cs, but should be accompanied with communication skills training to potentially produce more patient-centered responses from the clinicians. (ClinicalTrials.gov number NCT00857103.)