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Numeracy and the medical student's ability to interpret dataStacey L Sheridan
Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Eff Clin Pract 5:35-40. 2002..Although the ability to work with numbers is important to the practice of medicine, little is known about physician numeracy (basic skill with numbers)...- Information needs of men regarding prostate cancer screening and the effect of a brief decision aidStacey L Sheridan
Division of General Medicine and Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 5039 Old Clinic Building, CB 7110, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Patient Educ Couns 54:345-51. 2004..Little is known about what information affects men's decisions about prostate cancer screening... - Shared decision making about screening and chemoprevention. a suggested approach from the U.S. Preventive Services Task ForceStacey L Sheridan
Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Am J Prev Med 26:56-66. 2004.... 
Framingham-based tools to calculate the global risk of coronary heart disease: a systematic review of tools for cliniciansStacey Sheridan
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7110, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:1039-52. 2003..To examine the features of available Framingham-based risk calculation tools and review their accuracy and feasibility in clinical practice...- Screening for high blood pressure: a review of the evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task ForceStacey Sheridan
Department of Medicine, Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 5039 Old Clinic Building, CB 7110, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Am J Prev Med 25:151-8. 2003..Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended screening adults for hypertension. Since that time, the published literature on hypertension has expanded rapidly, necessitating a new examination of the evidence supporting screening... - Use of global coronary heart disease risk assessment in practice: a cross-sectional survey of a sample of U.S. physiciansBenjamin Shillinglaw
Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 12:20. 2012..Our objective was to examine US physicians' awareness, use, and attitudes regarding global CHD risk assessment in clinical practice, and how these vary by provider specialty... - The impact of a decision aid about heart disease prevention on patients' discussions with their doctor and their plans for prevention: a pilot randomized trialStacey L Sheridan
Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 6:121. 2006..We undertook this study to test the effectiveness of an individually-tailored, computerized decision aid about CHD on patients' discussions with their doctor and their plans for CHD prevention... - A randomized trial of an intervention to improve use and adherence to effective coronary heart disease prevention strategiesStacey L Sheridan
Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 11:331. 2011..Existing efforts to improve use and adherence to these efficacious strategies have been so intensive that they are impractical for clinical practice... 
Effect of adding a values clarification exercise to a decision aid on heart disease prevention: a randomized trialStacey L Sheridan
Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 27599, USA
Med Decis Making 30:E28-39. 2010..Experts have called for the inclusion of values clarification (VC) exercises in decision aids (DAs) as a means of improving their effectiveness, but little research has examined the effects of such exercises...- Randomized trial of presenting absolute v. relative risk reduction in the elicitation of patient values for heart disease prevention with conjoint analysisJennifer M Griffith
Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Med Decis Making 29:167-74. 2009..The authors performed a randomized controlled trial to test the effect of 2 different formats of risk reduction information when using conjoint analysis to elicit values about heart disease prevention... - Conjoint analysis versus rating and ranking for values elicitation and clarification in colorectal cancer screeningMichael P Pignone
Department of Medicine, Cecil Sheps Center for Health Services Research and Lineberger Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
J Gen Intern Med 27:45-50. 2012..To compare two techniques for eliciting and clarifying patient values for decision making about colorectal cancer (CRC) screening: choice-based conjoint analysis and a rating and ranking task... - Patient-physician agreement on the content of CHD prevention discussionsLindy Behrend
Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Health Expect 14:58-72. 2011..Little is known about agreement between patients and physicians on content and outcomes of clinical discussions. A common perception of content and outcomes may be desirable to optimize decision making and clinical care... - A randomized comparison of patients' understanding of number needed to treat and other common risk reduction formatsStacey L Sheridan
Division of General Medicine and Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:884-92. 2003..Commentators have suggested that patients may understand quantitative information about treatment benefits better when they are presented as numbers needed to treat (NNT) rather than as absolute or relative risk reductions... - Heart to Heart: a computerized decision aid for assessment of coronary heart disease risk and the impact of risk-reduction interventions for primary preventionMichael Pignone
Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7110, USA
Prev Cardiol 7:26-33. 2004..Future research will be directed to determining whether Heart to Heart can improve utilization of effective CHD risk-reducing interventions... - Acceptance of a Polypill approach to prevent cardiovascular disease among a sample of U.S. physiciansAnthony J Viera
Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Prev Med 52:10-5. 2011..To examine US physicians' self-reported knowledge about the Polypill, factors considered in deciding whether to prescribe it, and acceptance of prescribing it for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention... - The effect of giving global coronary risk information to adults: a systematic reviewStacey L Sheridan
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 27599, USA
Arch Intern Med 170:230-9. 2010..Whether it improves outcomes is currently unknown... - Interventions for individuals with low health literacy: a systematic reviewStacey L Sheridan
Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
J Health Commun 16:30-54. 2011..Evidence for the effects of interventions on other outcomes was either limited or mixed. Multiple interventions show promise for mitigating the effects of low health literacy and could be considered for use in clinical practice... - Individuals' responses to global CHD risk: a focus group studyStacey L Sheridan
Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7110, USA
Patient Educ Couns 76:233-9. 2009..To explore how individuals respond to global coronary heart disease (CHD) risk and use it in combination with treatment information to make decisions to initiate and maintain risk reducing strategies... - Global risk of coronary heart disease: assessment and applicationAnthony J Viera
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
Am Fam Physician 82:265-74. 2010..Many tools are available to estimate global risk, including several Web-based calculators. In the United States, tools based on the Framingham Heart Study are recommended... - Shared decision making for prostate cancer screening: the results of a combined analysis of two practice-based randomized controlled trialsStacey L Sheridan
Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599 7110, USA
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 12:130. 2012..abstract:.. - Does the routine use of global coronary heart disease risk scores translate into clinical benefits or harms? A systematic review of the literatureStacey L Sheridan
Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 8:60. 2008..Guidelines now recommend routine assessment of global coronary heart disease (CHD) risk scores. We performed a systematic review to assess whether global CHD risk scores result in clinical benefits or harms... - Tables or bar graphs? Presenting test results in electronic medical recordsNoel T Brewer
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Med Decis Making 32:545-53. 2012..Electronic personal health records offer a promising way to communicate medical test results to patients. We compared the usability of tables and horizontal bar graphs for presenting medical test results electronically... - A randomized trial of three videos that differ in the framing of information about mammography in women 40 to 49 years oldCarmen L Lewis
Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7110, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:875-83. 2003..To assess the effect of providing structured information about the benefits and harms of mammography in differing frames on women's perceptions of screening... - Promoting informed choice: transforming health care to dispense knowledge for decision makingSteven H Woolf
Department of Family Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, West Hospital, Richmond, Virginia 23298 0251, USA
Ann Intern Med 143:293-300. 2005..Today's health care system is unprepared for the convergence of these 2 burgeoning domains, and the need to address systemic deficiencies will grow more urgent over time... - Promoting prostate-specific antigen informed decision-making. Evaluating two community-level interventionsDavid L Driscoll
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Am J Prev Med 35:87-94. 2008..Studies assessing how to promote PSA informed decision-making (IDM) have been conducted almost exclusively in healthcare settings; there is a need for similar research in community settings...
Research Grants
- Decision Aid to Enhance CHD Risk Factor ModificationStacey Sheridan; Fiscal Year: 2007..Rimer), preventive service utilization (Dr. Harris), and developing and testing behavioral interventions in high-risk populations (Dr. Keyserling) (End of abstract). ..