Women's preference to apply shared decision-making in breast cancer screening: a discrete choice experiment.

Objective: To analyse women's stated preferences for establishing the relative importance of each attribute of shared decision-making (SDM) and their willingness to pay (WTP) for more participatory care in breast cancer screening programmes (BCSP).

Design: A discrete choice experiment was designed with 12 questions (choice tasks). It included three attributes: 'How the information is obtained', regarding benefits and harms; whether there is a 'Dialogue for scheduled mammography' between the healthcare professional and the woman; and, 'Who makes the decision', regarding participation in BCSP.

Development of support material for health professionals who are implementing Shared Decision-making in breast cancer screening: validation using the Delphi technique.

Background: The Literature is no report support material on Shared Decision-making applied to breast cancer screening that is intended for Spanish health professionals. The researcher created both a handbook and a guide for this topic using an adaption of the Three-talk model.

Objective: A Delphi method will be used to reach an agreement among experts on the contents and design of a manual and guide, designed by the research team, and to be used by health professionals in the application of SDM in breast cancer screening.

[Breast cancer mortality trend in Spain and its autonomous communities during the period 1980-2005].

Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. The aim of this study is to describe the development of breast cancer mortality and its relation with the implementation of population screening programs in Spain and its Autonomous Communities (AC) from 1980 to 2005.

Methods: A breast cancer mortality trends analysis was done.