Breast Screening Decisions – A Mammogram Decision Aid

I’m proud and excited to introduce you to Breast Screening Decisions, an online Mammogram Decision Aid designed to provide individualized, unbiased information that can help women ages 40-49 decide when to start and how often to have screening mammograms. Breast Screening Decisions (BSD) was created in the wake of the 2009 US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations that every woman in her 40’s make an individual decision about when to start and how often to have mammograms. Not all medical groups agreed with the USPSTF recommendation, adding to the confusion many women feel about the mammogram decision and putting providers in the difficult position of having to steer each patient through the controversy to a decision that feels right for her. Breast Screening Decisions is a support tool for shared mammogram decision making between women and their health care providers. Women ages 40-49 can access BSD online at their own convenience, then bring in the BSD summary to a preventive care visit, where an informed discussion can occur, leading to a decision about screening mammograms that both patient and her provider can feel good about. Breast Screening Decision is not designed to influence mammogram decisions, but to inform and reduce anxiety around the decision-making process for both women and their providers. We want to help women make the decision that is right for them, whatever that decision may be. Who Should Use Breast Screening Decisions?  ...
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