Authors: Sarah B Wackerbarth Yelena N Tarasenko Laurel A Curtis Jennifer M Joyce Steven A Haist
Publish Date: 2007/08/21
Volume: 22, Issue: 10, Pages: 1467-1469
Abstract
Physicians were found to use 1 of 4 heuristics “age 50” “age 50 if family history then earlier” “age 50 if family history then screen at age 40” or “age 50 if family history then adjust relative to reference case” for the timing recommendation and 5 heuristics “fecal occult blood test” FOBT “colonoscopy” “if not colonoscopy then” “FOBT and another test” and “a choice between options” for the type decision No connection was found between timing and screening type heuristicsThe National Cancer Institute R21CA102349 and the Agency for Healthcare Research on Quality R24HS01184503 supported this work The project was approved by the University of Kentucky Institutional Review Board 030079P1B We acknowledge and thank Dr Jane Peters and April Morgan for conducting interviews and their roles on the analysis team Dr Mark Eckman and Dr Frederick Michel for recruiting participants Dr Michael Doukas for clinical consultation Dr J S Butler for statistical consultation and Dr Brian Stevenson for editorial comments Last but not least we thank our interview participants
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