"What Should Men Know About Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening Before Giving Informed Consent?."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in American Journal of Medicine, "Purpose: Since prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening is controversial, some authorities recommend that patients give informed consent before testing. We identified and compared what facts experts and patients thought men should know. Subjects and Methods: We recruited a Delphi panel of national experts (6 urologists and 6 non-urologists) and conducted 6 focus groups of couples (48 subjects) with 24 screened and unscreened men from a university hospital. We ranked key facts that experts and couples thought men ought to know before consenting to PSA screening and conducted a...

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