Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 78, Issue 2 , Pages 166-168 , February 2010

Strategies for distributing cancer screening decision aids in primary care

  • Charles Brackett

      Affiliations

    • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Section of General Internal Medicine, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756, United States. Tel.: +1 603 650 2921.
    • ,
  • Stephen Kearing

      Affiliations

    • Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, NH, USA
    • ,
  • Nan Cochran

      Affiliations

    • White River Junction, VAH, VT, USA
    • ,
  • Anna N.A. Tosteson

      Affiliations

    • Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, NH, USA
    • ,
  • W. Blair Brooks

      Affiliations

    • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA

Received 31 October 2008 ,Revised 19 June 2009 ,Accepted 29 June 2009.

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☆ This research was performed at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH and White River Junction VA Hospital in White River Junction, VT between June 2006 and May 2008.

PII: S0738-3991(09)00255-9

doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2009.06.013

Patient Education and Counseling
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