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Open AccessMaintaining Family Engagement During Home Visitor Turnover: a Mixed Methods Study of Best Practices
Evidence-based home visiting services (EBHV) are available in states and localities nationwide through the federally-funded Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program. Nevertheless, t...
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Open Access“Go ahead and screen” - advice to healthcare systems for routine lynch syndrome screening from interviews with newly diagnosed colorectal cancer patients
Lynch syndrome (LS) is the most common cause of inherited colorectal cancer (CRC). Universal tumor screening (UTS) of newly diagnosed CRC cases is recommended to aid in diagnosis of LS and reduce cancer-relate...
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Open AccessA picture is worth a thousand words: advancing the use of visualization tools in implementation science through process map** and matrix heat map**
Identifying key determinants is crucial for improving program implementation and achieving long-term sustainment within healthcare organizations. Organizational-level complexity and heterogeneity across multip...
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Qualitative Methods for Refining a Web-Based Educational Tool for Patients Focused on Inherited Cancer Predisposition
To address the increasing demand for inherited cancer genetic testing, we developed and evaluated a web-based educational tool to streamline genetic counseling (GC). Consented patients viewed the initial proto...
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Open AccessIMProving care After inherited Cancer Testing (IMPACT) study: protocol of a randomized trial evaluating the efficacy of two interventions designed to improve cancer risk management and family communication of genetic test results
Implementing genetic testing for inherited cancer predisposition into routine clinical care offers a tremendous opportunity for cancer prevention and early detection. However, genetic testing itself does not i...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Coincidence analysis: a new method for causal inference in implementation science
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
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Open AccessCoincidence analysis: a new method for causal inference in implementation science
Implementation of multifaceted interventions typically involves many diverse elements working together in interrelated ways, including intervention components, implementation strategies, and features of local ...
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Cancer risk management among female BRCA1/2, PALB2, CHEK2, and ATM carriers
Identification of inherited breast cancer may guide cancer risk management. We sought to compare risk management practices across women with inherited breast cancer genes.
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Open AccessImplementing universal Lynch syndrome screening (IMPULSS): protocol for a multi-site study to identify strategies to implement, adapt, and sustain genomic medicine programs in different organizational contexts
Systematic screening of all colorectal tumors for Lynch Syndrome (LS) has been recommended since 2009. Currently, implementation of LS screening in healthcare systems remains variable, likely because LS screen...
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Development of FOCUS-GC: Framework for Outcomes of Clinical Communication Services in Genetic Counseling
Conceptual frameworks bring together existing theories and models in order to identify, consolidate, and fill in gaps between theory, practice, and evidence. Given the vast number of possible outcomes that cou...
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Universal Tumor Screening for Lynch Syndrome
Lynch syndrome is estimated to affect 1 out of every 279 individuals worldwide. However, 95% of individuals with Lynch syndrome are not aware of their diagnosis. Therefore, it is important that we maximize all...
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Correlation between germline mutations in MMR genes and microsatellite instability in ovarian cancer specimens
A high proportion of ovarian cancers from women who carry germline mutations in mismatch repair (MMR) genes demonstrate microsatellite instability (MSI). The utility of pre-screening ovarian cancer specimens f...
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A Rapid Systematic Review of Outcomes Studies in Genetic Counseling
As healthcare reimbursement is increasingly tied to value-of-service, it is critical for the genetic counselor (GC) profession to demonstrate the value added by GCs through outcomes research. We conducted a ra...
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“Be Prepared if I Bring It Up:” Patients’ Perceptions of the Utility of Religious and Spiritual Discussion During Genetic Counseling
As debates continue about the relevance of religion to health care, research is needed to guide decisions about whether genetic counselors (GCs) should routinely address religious and/or spiritual (R/S) issues...
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Creation of a Network to Promote Universal Screening for Lynch Syndrome: The Lynch Syndrome Screening Network
The Evaluation of Genomic Applications in Practice and Prevention Working Group published an evidence-based recommendation stating that every newly diagnosed colorectal cancer (CRC) should undergo tumor screen...
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Applying Public Health Screening Criteria: How Does Universal Newborn Screening Compare to Universal Tumor Screening for Lynch Syndrome in Adults with Colorectal Cancer?
Institutions have increasingly begun to adopt universal tumor screening (UTS) programs whereby tumors from all newly diagnosed patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) are screened to identify who should be offer...
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BRCA sequencing and large rearrangement testing in young Black women with breast cancer
Young Black women in the United States are disproportionately afflicted with breast cancer, a proportion of which may be due to BRCA1 and BRCA2 (BRCA) gene mutations. In a cancer registry-based sample of young Bl...
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Educational Needs and Preferred Methods of Learning Among Florida Practitioners Who Order Genetic Testing for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer
With the expansion of genetic testing options due to tremendous advances in sequencing technologies, testing will increasingly be offered by a variety of healthcare providers in diverse settings, as has been o...
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Psychometric properties of the Body Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults in an early adolescent sample
Validation of body esteem measures in pre- and early adolescent male and female populations is essential as gender differences regarding weight and body size concerns often emerge during this developmental per...
