title: Decision making and prostate cancer screening.
abstract: This article presents an overview of the challenges that men encounter in making decisions about prostate cancer screening, including complex affective and cognitive factors and controversies in the interpretation of the evidence on prostate cancer screening. Shared decision making involving patient decision aids are discussed as approaches that can be used to improve the quality of prostate cancer screening decisions, including a close alignment between a man's values, goals, and preferences and his choice about screening.
authors.affiliation: Health Services Research and Development Service, Office of Research and Development, Veterans Health Administration, 810 Vermont Avenue, Northwest, Washington, DC 20420, USA; Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, 400 Parnassus Avenue, Suite A610, San Francisco, CA 94123, USA. Electronic address: sara.knight@va.gov.
authors.forename: Sara J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Knight
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D055088:Early Detection of Cancer; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000523:psychology*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology
keywords: Informed decision making; Patient decision aid; Patient preferences; Patient values; Prostate cancer screening; Prostate specific antigen (PSA) test; Shared decision making; Values clarification