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Health services research is translational: lessons learned from VHA-funded research on cancer screening in older adults

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Translational Behavioral Medicine

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Acknowledgments

Dr. Walter is supported by the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and a grant from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (R01 CA134425), which is administered by the Northern California Institute for Research and Education.

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  1. Division of Geriatrics, San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, VA Medical Center, 181G, 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA, 94121, USA

    Louise C Walter

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Implications

Practice: To avoid unintended harms, cancer screening efforts should be tailored to the characteristics of individuals, and efforts should be directed to informing those who should avoid screening as well as those who might benefit from screening.

Policy: Cancer screening guideline developers should consider the potential for harmful unintended consequences when cancer screening is not targeted to the characteristics of individual patients.

Research: Funding mechanisms are needed to continue to support independent health services research to optimize appropriate use of cancer screening in clinical practice.

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Walter, L.C. Health services research is translational: lessons learned from VHA-funded research on cancer screening in older adults. Behav. Med. Pract. Policy Res. 1, 548–550 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13142-011-0078-3

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