Critical care is resource intensive, using large amounts of energy, pharmaceuticals, and single-use consumables, all of which potentially have a harmful impact on the environment. We can view environmental sustainability in critical care via the framework: avoid, reduce, reuse, recycle, rethink, and research. Reducing the [...]
Risk stratification of bowel cancer screening was acceptable to the informed public. Using data within the current system (age, sex and screening results) was considered an obvious next step and collecting additional data for lifestyle and/or genetic risk assessment was also preferable to age-based screening. [...]
Overdiagnosis is a concept central to making informed breast cancer screening decisions, and yet when provided information about overdiagnosis, some people are skeptical. This research developed a measure that assessed different ways in which people might express skepticism about overdiagnosis (reactance, self-exemption, disbelief, source derogation [...]
Although women were positive about the potential of breast screening AI, they argued strongly that humans must remain as central actors in breast screening systems and consistently expressed high expectations of the performance of breast screening AI. Women expected clear lines of responsibility for decision-making, [...]
Truncated follow-up, if less than one year to the next surveillance mammogram, enabled second breast cancers to be associated with a single preceding mammogram and resulted in more accurate estimates of diagnostic performance for national benchmarks.
Robust evidence regarding the benefits and harms of notifying Australian women when routine breast screening identifies that they have dense breasts is needed for informing future mammography population screening practice and policy. Objectives of this RCT are to assess the psychosocial and health services use [...]
Participants suggested that prerequisites for a reduction in routinely scheduled visits with melanoma doctors would include that sufficient time had elapsed since the previous diagnosis without a new primary melanoma or recurrence, an unscheduled appointment could be made at short notice if the patient noticed [...]
We found that public awareness of DCIS remains very low, but women developed reasonable understanding of DCIS following a short informational presentation. There was substantial support for offering the option of de-escalated treatment for low-risk DCIS, especially among older women. If clinical trials are to [...]