Developing a breast cancer screening decision aid in Spanish for average-risk women: a mixed methods study.

Introduction: We aimed to develop a decision aid to support shared-decision making between physicians and women with average breast cancer risk when deciding whether to participate in breast cancer screening.

Methods: We included women at average risk of breast cancer and physicians involved in supporting the decision of breast cancer screening from an Academic Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We followed the International Patient Decision Aid Standards to develop our decision aid.

Quantitative and qualitative analysis of Argentine breast cancer prevention campaigns disseminated by still images on social networks during October 2019.

Objectives: To quantitatively document the degree of compliance of institutional messages broadcast on social networks with the recommendations of the National Cancer Institute (INC) in Argentina during October 2019, in the context of breast cancer prevention campaigns, and to qualitatively analyze the pictorial and textual elements that make up their dissemination pieces.

Materials And Methods: Quantitative and qualitative analysis of 171 dissemination pieces issued during October 2019 by 54 institutions, based on the evaluation of their compliance with INC recommendations, the description of the main discordant recommendations (quantitative analysis) and the qualitative analysis of 30 pieces.

Results: None of the issued messages mentioned potential screening harms.

[Prostate specific antigen utilization trends in an academic hospital in Argentina.].

Background: Although prostate cancer (PC) screening with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) determination could decrease mortality, concerns about the potential risk of overdiagnosis led to recommendations against this preventive practice. The objective of this study was to describe the trend in PSA determinations in men between 40 and 79 years old, affiliated to a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) of an academic hospital in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and its association with the recommendations stated by the U.S.

Translation, transcultural adaptation, and validation of two questionnaires on shared decision making.

Objective: To translate, transcultural adapt, and validate the "CollaboRATE" measure and the "Ask 3 Questions" intervention in Argentina, allowing us to quantify the degree of use and implementation of shared decision making (SDM).

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting And Participants: Data were collected in an academic hospital in Buenos Aires.

Medication discrepancies and potentially inadequate prescriptions in elderly adults with polypharmacy in ambulatory care.

Objectives: The objective of this study is to describe the frequency and type of medication discrepancies (MD) through medication reconciliation and to describe the frequency of potentially inadequate prescription (PIP) medications using screening tool of older persons' prescriptions criteria.

Design: Cross-sectional comparison of electronic medical record (EMR) medication lists and patient's self-report of their comprehensive medication histories obtained through telephone interviews.

Inclusion Criteria: Elderly individuals (>65 years old) with more than ten medications recorded in their EMR, who had not been hospitalized in the past year and were not under domiciliary care, affiliated to a private community hospital.

[Excessive osteoporosis screening in women under 65 years: a cross-sectional study].

Overuse of osteoporosis screening in women at low risk of fracture may lead to overdiagnosis, inappropriate treatment and medicalization. The objective of this work was to estimate the proportion of women aged 45 to 64 enrolled in a private health insurance plan in Buenos Aires undergoing hip dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) in 2011 without meeting osteoporosis screening criteria. In this cross-sectional study, 4310 women of this age range that had undergone a hip DXA were identified.