Navigating Conflicting Vaccination Recommendations

This Perspective discusses how clinicians can navigate conflicting vaccination recommendations following revisions from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and US Centers for Disease Cont...

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Science translation strategies to the public during health emergencies: a systematic review of RCTs

Effective science translation is essential during public health emergencies. During the COVID-19 pandemic, rapidly evolving research had to be transla…

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The Counseling and Shared Decision-Making Visit for Lung Cancer Screening: A Thematic Analysis of Public Comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services during the 2021-2022 National Coverage...

Uptake of lung cancer screening (LCS) in the U.S. has been limited, and some groups have argued that the unprecedented Centers for Medicare & Medicaid…

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How New Trump Multiyear Policy Makes NIH Grants Even Harder To Get

The new Trump administration multiyear funding policy for NIH grants has dropped National Cancer Institute grant funding rates from one in 10 applicants to one in 25.

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How to Communicate Medical Numbers

This JAMA Insights provides evidence-based recommendations for communicating numerical information to patients.

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Automated production of comparison tables for shared decision making: Comparing a human-generated table (Option Grid), a search engine process, and outputs from four large language models

To explore the ability of artificial intelligence to produce comparison tables to facilitate shared decision-making.An expert human-generated comparis…

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Advice for Improving the Experience of Web-Based Patient Portals: Qualitative Interviews With Caregiver-Adolescent Dyads

Background: Web-based patient portals can benefit adolescents and their caregivers by increasing access and providing greater understanding of one’s health information, enhancing communication with cl...

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Building momentum: School of Public Health marks milestones

The School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis is rapidly expanding with new people, spaces and initiatives. In August, faculty and staff gathered to begin shaping the school’s stra...

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The limits of shared decision making

The foundation of shared decision making (SDM) is the view that people should be aware of relevant choices, and that their personal views, priorities and preferences are relevant factors when determin...

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Trends in Colorectal Cancer Screening in US Adults Aged 45 to 49 Years

This study evaluates changes in colorectal cancer screening uptake among adults aged 45 to 49 years.

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Patients With Answers

In this narrative medicine essay, a family medicine physician works through the challenge of responding to the medical advice patients bring from ChatGPT to understanding patients’ need to be heard.

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Over One-Third of Surgical Patients Report Inadequate Shared Decision-Making: Opportunities for Improvement From the ACS NSQIP PROMs Project - PubMed

SDM is an essential component of high-quality, patient-centered care, yet this study identified that over a third of surgical patients reported inadequate SDM. Attention paid to improving SDM is criti...

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Estimated Out-of-Pocket Cost for Privately Insured Patients With Common Cancers

This cohort study investigates the out-of-pocket costs associated with breast, colorectal, and lung cancer among patients younger than 65 years with private insurance.

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Translational framework for implementation evaluation and research: implementation strategies derived from normalization process theory - Implementation Science

Background Implementation strategies are deliberate systematic actions used to support the uptake of innovations in health and social care. While widely used taxonomies such as ERIC and EPOC have emer...

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Designing for dissemination through community advisory board engagement in an implementation mapping process: A case study - PubMed

Sharing power and decision-making enhanced the capacity for local-level dissemination, which is much needed to advance the science of community partnerships.

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Combating Misinformation | SBM | Toolkit

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A randomized controlled trial to evaluate innovative decision support in the context of fall prevention - npj Digital Medicine

npj Digital Medicine - A randomized controlled trial to evaluate innovative decision support in the context of fall prevention

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Systematic review to understand users perspectives on AI-enabled decision aids to inform shared decision making - npj Digital Medicine

npj Digital Medicine - Systematic review to understand users perspectives on AI-enabled decision aids to inform shared decision making

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Accurate is not enough: select formats for communicating probabilities to achieve specific outcomes

In 20 years of researching and teaching health risk communication methods, the most common question we get is: how should I communicate this [adverse event risk, survival probability, etc.] so that pa...

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Commercial Price Variation for Common Services in General Surgery

This cross-sectional study uses Hospital Price Transparency and Transparency in Coverage data to examine variation in commercial insurance payment rates for common surgical services.

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“Nothing Is as Great a Learning Experience as Getting a $15,000 Bill”: A Mixed-Methods Study of Young Adult Cancer Survivors' Experience With Insurance Coverage | JCO Oncology Practice

PURPOSETo explore long-term young adult (YA) cancer survivors' experience with health insurance in a post–Affordable Care Act (ACA) era.METHODSThis was a mixed-methods analysis of insurance-related da...

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Costs of non-metastatic prostate cancer treatment among privately insured men in the United States

Background Our objective was to quantify the cumulative total and out-of-pocket (OOP) costs for 3 non-metastatic prostate cancer treatment modalities: radiation, surgery, and conservative management a...

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WashU experts defend fluoride with facts

Amid growing misinformation, Washington University in St. Louis health experts provided Rolla leaders with clear data to support smart health policy. City leaders voted to preserve fluoride in the wat...

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Communicating Numeric Risk Information to Patients - PubMed

Risk information is increasingly available to health care providers and patients thanks to a growing body of health outcomes research and clinical prediction models. Meanwhile, communicating such info...

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Patient Reactions to Artificial Intelligence–Clinician Discrepancies: Web-Based Randomized Experiment

Background: As the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)–approved use of artificial intelligence (AI) for medical imaging rises, radiologists are increasingly integrating AI into their clinical practi...

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St. Louis Storm Recovery Efforts | In St. Louis, For St. Louis | WashU

On Friday, May 16, a severe storm impacted lives across St. Louis. More than 5,000 homes in the region were affected, along with parts of our campus. We are holding everyone impacted in our hearts and...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

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