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| Alexandra BarrattSummaryAffiliation: University of Sydney Country: Australia Publications
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A decision aid to support informed choices about bowel cancer screening among adults with low education: randomised controlled trialSian K Smith
Screening and Test Evaluation Program, Centre for Medical Psychology and Evidence Based Decision Making, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
BMJ 341:c5370. 2010..To determine whether a decision aid designed for adults with low education and literacy can support informed choice and involvement in decisions about screening for bowel cancer...
Benefits, harms and costs of screening mammography in women 70 years and over: a systematic reviewAlexandra L Barratt
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW
Med J Aust 176:266-71. 2002..To assess the (i) benefits, (ii) harms and (iii) costs of continuing mammographic screening for women 70 years and over...- Cancer screening--benefits, harms and making an informed choiceAlexandra L Barratt
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales
Aust Fam Physician 35:39-42. 2006..On the other side, the benefits of cancer screening are quite rare and have been oversold... - Model of outcomes of screening mammography: information to support informed choicesAlexandra Barratt
Screening and Test Evaluation Program, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
BMJ 330:936. 2005..To provide easy to use estimates of the benefits and harms of biennial screening mammography for women aged 40, 50, 60, and 70 years... - Use of decision aids to support informed choices about screeningAlexandra Barratt
Screening and Test Evaluation Program, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
BMJ 329:507-10. 2004 
Evidence Based Medicine and Shared Decision Making: the challenge of getting both evidence and preferences into health careAlexandra Barratt
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Patient Educ Couns 73:407-12. 2008..This paper look at the achievements of EBM and SDM so far, the potential tensions between them, and how things might progress in the future...- Screening for prostate cancer: explaining new trial results and their implications to patientsAlexandra L Barratt
University of Sydney, Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Med J Aust 191:226-9. 2009..The challenge for future research is to find a test that reliably detects prostate cancers that are curable if they are treated early and life-threatening if they are not... - Cancer screeningA Barratt
Screening and Test Evaluation Program, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia
J Epidemiol Community Health 56:899-902. 2002..quot;.. - Development and pilot-testing of a decision aid for women with a breech-presenting babyNatasha Nassar
Centre for Perinatal Health Services Research, QEII Building DO2, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Midwifery 23:38-47. 2007..To develop a decision aid for pregnant women with a breech presentation at term, and to assess its acceptability... - Estimates of overdiagnosis of invasive breast cancer associated with screening mammographyStephen Morrell
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Cancer Causes Control 21:275-82. 2010..To estimate the extent of overdiagnosis of invasive breast cancer associated with screening in New South Wales, Australia, a population with a well-established mammography screening program which has achieved full geographic coverage... - How do we achieve informed choice for women considering breast screening?Jolyn Hersch
Screening and Test Evaluation Program, Sydney School of Public Health, Edward Ford Bldg A27, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Prev Med 53:144-6. 2011..This paper discusses the issues around informed choice for women considering breast screening... - HPV testing versus repeat Pap testing for the management of a minor abnormal Pap smear: evaluation of a decision aid to support informed choiceKirsten J McCaffery
Screening and Test Evaluation Program, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Patient Educ Couns 73:473-9, 481. 2008..To examine women's informed preference for the management of a mildly abnormal Pap smear and the impact of a decision aid... - Development and preliminary evaluation of a bowel cancer screening decision aid for adults with lower literacySian K Smith
Screening and Diagnostic Test Evaluation Program, Centre for Medical Psychology and Evidence Based Decision Making, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, NSW, Australia
Patient Educ Couns 75:358-67. 2009..However, few have been designed for populations with lower education and literacy. This article describes the development and preliminary evaluation of a bowel cancer screening decision aid for this group... - Three questions that patients can ask to improve the quality of information physicians give about treatment options: a cross-over trialHeather L Shepherd
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Patient Educ Couns 84:379-85. 2011..To test the effect of three questions (what are my options? what are the benefits and harms? and how likely are these?), on information provided by physicians about treatment options... - Effects of study methods and biases on estimates of invasive breast cancer overdetection with mammography screening: a systematic reviewCorné Biesheuvel
Screening and Test Evaluation Program, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Lancet Oncol 8:1129-38. 2007..New studies are urgently needed to quantify the true extent of overdetection in current mammography screening programmes. These studies should be designed to avoid the multiple sources of bias identified in this review... - Informed choice in mammography screening: a randomized trial of a decision aid for 70-year-old womenErin Mathieu
Screening and Test Evaluation Program, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Arch Intern Med 167:2039-46. 2007..These women are advised to consider both the benefits and harms of continuing to be screened. Doing so may be difficult for individual women, and there are no evaluated decision support tools to assist them... - A systematic review on communicating with patients about evidenceLyndal J Trevena
Screening and Test Evaluation Program, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
J Eval Clin Pract 12:13-23. 2006..A case scenario is used to illustrate some of the difficulties of putting these results into practice... - Information needs and preferences of low and high literacy consumers for decisions about colorectal cancer screening: utilizing a linguistic modelSian K Smith
Screening and Test Evaluation Program, Centre for Medical Psychology and Evidence Based Decision Making, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Health Expect 11:123-36. 2008..The use of written decision aids (DAs) in clinical practice has proliferated. However, few DAs have been developed for low literacy users, despite this group having low knowledge about healthcare and lacking involvement in health decisions... - Differences in individual approaches: communication in the familial breast cancer consultation and the effect on patient outcomesElizabeth A Lobb
Medical Psychology Research Unit, Department of Psychology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
J Genet Couns 14:43-53. 2005..Communication skills may be a useful area to explore further in this field... - Views on evidence from nursing and midwifery opinion leadersDonna Waters
Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Nurse Educ Today 29:829-34. 2009.... - Shared decision making in Australia in 2011Kirsten J McCaffery
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Z Evid Fortbild Qual Gesundhwes 105:234-9. 2011..However, priority needs to be given to SDM by both federal and state governments with greater investment in SDM research and in activities to support implementation in clinical practice... - GPs want tailored, user friendly evidence summaries--a cross sectional study in New South WalesLyndal J Trevena
School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, New South Wales
Aust Fam Physician 36:1065-9. 2007.... - Reply to braillon and nicotJolyn Hersch
Screening and Test Evaluation Program, Sydney School of Public Health, Edward Ford Bldg A27, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Centre for Medical Psychology and Evidence based Decision making, Transient Bldg F12, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Prev Med 53:438. 2011 - Shared decision-making in AustraliaKirsten J McCaffery
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Z Arztl Fortbild Qualitatssich 101:205-11. 2007..There is now awareness of the need to target the demand side by educating consumers to ask for information and involvement in their health care... - "The news is [not] all good": misrepresentations and inaccuracies in Australian news media reports on prostate cancer screeningRoss MacKenzie
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Med J Aust 187:507-10. 2007..To list and critically review recent inaccurate statements made by advocates of prostate cancer screening in Australian news media... - A theoretical framework for measuring knowledge in screening decision aid trialsSian K Smith
Psychosocial Research Group, Prince of Wales Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia Electronic address
Patient Educ Couns 89:330-6. 2012..To describe a theoretical framework for assessing knowledge about the possible outcomes of participating in bowel cancer screening for the faecal occult blood test... - Integrated decision making: definitions for a new disciplineLyndal Trevena
Screening and Test Evaluation Program, Department of General Practice, School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Patient Educ Couns 50:265-8. 2003.... - Tips for learners of evidence-based medicine: 1. Relative risk reduction, absolute risk reduction and number needed to treatAlexandra Barratt
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
CMAJ 171:353-8. 2004 - Assisting informed decision making for labour analgesia: a randomised controlled trial of a decision aid for labour analgesia versus a pamphletCamille H Raynes-Greenow
Kolling Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 10:15. 2010..Decision aids are tools that present evidence based information and allow preference elicitation... - Systematic review of adverse outcomes of external cephalic version and persisting breech presentation at termNatasha Nassar
Centre for Perinatal Health Services Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 20:163-71. 2006..Only with improved reporting and collection of safety data on ECV and persisting breech presentation can we provide high-quality information to assist informed decision making by pregnant women with a breech presentation at term... - Adding value to clinical trial registries: insights from Australian Cancer Trials Online, a website for consumersRachel Dear
Center for Medical Psychology and Evidence Based Decision Making, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Clin Trials 8:70-6. 2011..Trial registries could be an excellent source of information about clinical trials for patients and others affected by cancer as well as health care professionals, but may be difficult for patients to navigate and use... - Impact of privacy legislation on the number and characteristics of people who are recruited for research: a randomised controlled trialL Trevena
Room 322, Edward Ford Building A27, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
J Med Ethics 32:473-7. 2006..Opt-out patients were contacted by researchers. Opt-in patients were contacted if patients responded by email, free telephone number or a reply-paid card... - Exploring patient involvement in healthcare decision making across different education and functional health literacy groupsSian K Smith
Screening and Test Evaluation Program, School of Public Health, Edward Ford Building A27, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
Soc Sci Med 69:1805-12. 2009.... - Do audio-guided decision aids improve outcomes? A randomized controlled trial of an audio-guided decision aid compared with a booklet decision aid for Australian women considering labour analgesiaCamille H Raynes-Greenow
Perinatal Research Group, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
Health Expect 12:407-16. 2009..To assess the effectiveness of an audio-guided component: an audio-guided decision aid vs. a stand-alone booklet decision aid... - Cancer screening - pros, cons, choice, and the patientLyndal Trevena
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Aust Fam Physician 38:188-92. 2009..There are challenges for both practitioners and consumers in communicating about screening in practice... - GPs' experience and attitudes toward new genetics: barriers and needsQi Rong Huang
School of Health Information Management, University of Sydney, New South Wales
Aust Fam Physician 33:379-80. 2004 - To freeze or not to freeze? Answering a question about the treatment of cutaneous wartsLyndal Trevena
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales
Aust Fam Physician 32:738. 2003 - Impediments to higher degree training for Australian clinical researchers in general practiceLyndal Trevena
School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Educ Health (Abingdon) 18:157-65. 2005..Evidence-based general practice requires skilled researchers in the field. This study explores the issues faced by professionals from the Australian general practice sector who were considering higher degree training in research... - What medical students value in a population health tutor: characteristics for consideration in staff recruitment and developmentLyndal Trevena
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney, Australia
Educ Health (Abingdon) 16:51-8. 2003..This analysis identifies the tutor characteristics rated most positively by medical students in a small-group course in population health and discusses their implication for staff recruitment and development... - Information about tests for breast cancer: what are we telling people?Emily Croft
Screening Test Evaluation Program, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
J Fam Pract 51:858-60. 2002..Eighteen percent of publications provided some (generally qualitative) information about test accuracy, and none provided quantitative information about the probability of disease given normal and abnormal test results... - The Australian experience of nurses' preparedness for evidence-based practiceDonna Waters
The College of Nursing, Burwood, Sydney, NSW 1805, Australia
J Nurs Manag 17:510-8. 2009..This study aimed to determine current knowledge and attitudes towards evidence-based practice (EBP) among pre- and post-registration nurses in New South Wales (NSW), Australia... - Pregnant women's preferences and knowledge of term breech management, in an Australian settingCamille H Raynes-Greenow
Centre for Perinatal Health Services Research, Screening and Test Evaluation Program, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia
Midwifery 20:181-7. 2004..To assess women's familiarity with breech presentation and external cephalic version (ECV), and to identify women's preferences and attitudes regarding breech management... - A glossary for evidence based public healthLucie Rychetnik
Sydney Health Projects Group, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia
J Epidemiol Community Health 58:538-45. 2004..It draws on the published literature, experience gained over several years analysis of the topic, and discussions with public health colleagues, including researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and students... - Effect of study design and quality on unsatisfactory rates, cytology classifications, and accuracy in liquid-based versus conventional cervical cytology: a systematic reviewElizabeth Davey
Screening and Test Evaluation Program, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia
Lancet 367:122-32. 2006..We reviewed the published work to assess the performance of liquid-based cytology relative to conventional cytology in primary studies assessed to be of low, medium, or high methodological quality... - A randomized crossover trial of PAPNET for primary cervical screeningLes Irwig
Screening and Test Evaluation Program, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Edward Ford Building A27, NSW 2006, Sydney, Australia
J Clin Epidemiol 57:75-81. 2004..To develop and demonstrate efficient methods to estimate the relative true positive and false positive rates of two cervical screening tests (conventional cytology and PAPNET)... - Psychological outcomes and risk perception after genetic testing and counselling in breast cancer: a systematic reviewPhyllis N Butow
Medical Psychology Research Unit, Blackburn Building D06, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Med J Aust 178:77-81. 2003..To conduct a systematic review of the effects of genetic counselling and testing for familial breast cancer on women's perception of risk and psychological morbidity... - Is home screening for bowel cancer a good idea?Barbara Ann Adelstein
Aust N Z J Public Health 27:265-6. 2003 - Communicating about screeningVikki A Entwistle
Social Dimensions of Health Institute, University of Dundee, UK
BMJ 337:a1591. 2008