Most “top-rated” web sites advocate shared decision-making about screening

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Sitemaster

Despite the recommendations of the USPSTF and others, “Only 17 percent of top-ranked consumer health websites advise against screening for prostate cancer” according to a paper just presented by researchers at the the 2014 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), currently ongoing in San Francisco. … READ MORE …

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Prostate cancer web sites for the “reading challenged”

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Sitemaster

A new paper in the Journal of Urology has criticized most prostate cancer web sites written for patients because they are not written at an 8th or 9th grade reading skill level (a skill level considered to be available to most American males). … READ MORE …

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