General Practitioners’ Experiences of, and Responses to, Uncertainty in Prostate Cancer Screening: Insights from a Qualitative Study
| Field | Value | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | Pickles, Kristen | |
| dc.contributor.author | Carter, SM | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rychetnik, Lucie | |
| dc.contributor.author | McCaffery, Kirsten | |
| dc.contributor.author | Entwistle, Vikki A. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-27 | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-04-27 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-04-01 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Pickles, K., Carter SM, Rychetnik L, McCaffery K, Entwistle V. General Practitioners’ Experiences of, and Responses to, Uncertainty in Prostate Cancer Screening: Insights from a Qualitative Study, PLoS One, Published: April 21, 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153299 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0153299 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14773 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing for prostate cancer is controversial. There are unresolved tensions and disagreements amongst experts, and clinical guidelines conflict. This both reflects and generates significant uncertainty about the appropriateness of screening. Little is known about general practitioners’ (GPs’) perspectives and experiences in relation to PSA testing of asymptomatic men. In this paper we asked the following questions: (1) What are the primary sources of uncertainty as described by GPs in the context of PSA testing? (2) How do GPs experience and respond to different sources of uncertainty? | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The project was funded by NHMRC grant 1023197. Stacy Carter is supported by NHMRC Career Development Fellowship 1032963. | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Public Library of Science | en |
| dc.rights | Other | |
| dc.title | General Practitioners’ Experiences of, and Responses to, Uncertainty in Prostate Cancer Screening: Insights from a Qualitative Study | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| usyd.faculty | Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney Health Ethics |
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