While patient education decision aids can help older women make better-informed decisions about whether to continue mammography screening, they do not influence whether the women will actually change their minds about having the test.In a new Australian study appearing in the October 22 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, women who received decision aid materials were better prepared to make the choice, but an equal percentage of women participated or planned to participate in mammography screening one month following the intervention, whether or not they received the decision aid.
