Sharing the Decision Slide Set:
Toolkit

I. Tools to Facilitate Shared Decision Making for Prostate Cancer Screening

Screening for Prostate Cancer: Sharing the Decision
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

CDC developed this Web-based slide presentation to help physicians explain prostate cancer and screening to patients more effectively.

Prostate Cancer Screening: A Decision Guide
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

This 17-page guide for men discusses the prostate, prostate cancer, and screening tests in an easy-to-read question-and-answer format.

Prostate Cancer Screening: A Decision Guide for African Americans
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

This 17-page guide for African-American men discusses the prostate, prostate cancer, and screening tests in an easy-to-read question-and-answer format.

II. Articles on the Effectiveness of Shared Decision Making for Prostate Cancer Screening

1. Briss P, Rimer B, Reilley B, Coates RJ, Lee NC, Mullen P, Corso P, Hutchinson AB, Hiatt R, Kerner J, George P,White C, Gandhi N, Saraiya M, Breslow R, Isham G, Teutsch SM, Hinman AR, Lawrence R. Promoting informed decisions about cancer screening in communities and healthcare systems. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2004;26(1):67–80.



2. Sheridan SL, Harris RP, Woolf SH, for the Shared Decisionmaking Workgroup, Third U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Current methods of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: a review of the process. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2004;26(1):56–66.

III. Using Shared Decision Making

In Prostate Cancer

1. Barry MJ. Health decision aids to facilitate shared decision making in office practice. Annals of Internal Medicine 2002;136(2):127–135.



2. Chan EC. Promoting informed decision making about prostate cancer screening. Comprehensive Therapy 2001;27(3):195–201.



3. O'Dell KJ, Volk RJ, Cass AR, Spann SJ. Screening for prostate cancer with the prostate-specific antigen test—Are patients making informed decisions? The Journal of Family Practice 1999;48(9):682–688.



4. Taylor KL, Turner RO, Davis JL III, Johnson L, Schwartz MD, Kerner J, Leak C. Improving knowledge of the prostate cancer screening dilemma among African-American men: An academic-community partnership in Washington, D.C. Public Health Reports 2001;116(6):590–598.

In General Practice

1. Barry MJ. Involving patients in medical decisions: How can physicians do better? JAMA 1999;282(24):2356–2357.



2. Edwards A, Elwyn G. The potential benefits of decision aids in clinical medicine. JAMA 1999;282(8):779–780.



3. Feldman-Stewart D, Brundage MD, McConnell BA, MacKillop WJ. Practical issues in assisting shared decision-making. Health Expectations 2000;3(1):46–54.



4. O'Connor AM, Stacey D, Rovner D, Holmes-Rovner M, Tetroe J, Llewellyn-Thomas H, Entwistle V, Rostom A, Fiset V, Barry M, Jones J. Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions. Cochrane Database System Review 2001;3:CD001431.



5. O’Connor AM, Drake ER, Fiset V, Graham ID, Laupacis A, Tugwell P. The Ottawa patient decision aids.* Effective Clinical Practice 1999;2:163–170.



6. Schwartz LM, Woloshin S. Risk communication in clinical practice: Putting cancer in context. Journal of the National Cancer Institute Monographs 1999;25:124–133.

IV. Prostate Cancer Screening Recommendations

1. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

Related Links

• American Academy of Family Physicians*
• American Cancer Society Cancer Detection Guidelines*
• American College of Physicians/American Society of Internal Medicine*
• American College of Preventive Medicine*
• American Medical Association*
• American Urological Association (http://www.cancernetwork.com/journals/oncology/o0002e.htm)

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