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Home Contact CCDOR Contact Webmaster Site Map Home  ->  Publications and Reports EDUCATION MATERIALS PROCASE Study: Patient Education Pamphlet (PSA test for prostate cancer) RESET Study: Electronic Progress Note Templates Several documents on this website are in PDF format, readable with the Adobe Acrobat Reader version 4.0 and above. You may download a free copy of this reader from the Adobe Web site. Please make sure you download the appropriate reader for your operating system.   PROCASE Study            Patient Education Pamphlet:            "The PSA test for prostate cancer: Is it Right for ME?" Recipient of the 2002 H. Winter Griffith Award for Excellence in Patient Education Materials The American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation has favorably reviewed this material. Favorable review means medical information is accurate, but does not imply endorsement of any conclusions presented. This pamphlet was developed by the PROstate CAncer Screening Education (PROCASE) project (Principal Investigator Melissa R. Partin, PhD), a Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development service funded study to evaluate mailed pamphlet and video approaches to facilitating informed patient decisions about prostate cancer screening. The PROCASE pamphlet provides balanced and unbiased information about the possible risks and benefits of PSA testing and encourages patient involvement in testing decisions. More information about this pamphlet (PDF, 61 KB). Downloads: "The PSA test for prostate cancer: Is it Right for ME?" patient education pamphlet PDF (160 KB)  Pamphlet Assembly Instructions PDF (6 KB)    RESET Study Electronic progress note templates for promoting repeat tobacco dependence treatment: Examples of intervention materials used in the REcycling Smokers through Effective Treatment (RESET) study These electronic progress note templates were developed for the REcycling Smokers through Effective Treatment (RESET) project (Principal Investigator Melissa R. Partin, Ph.D.). The RESET project was funded by the Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development service to assess the effectiveness of an intervention for increasing the rate of tobacco dependence treatment in a population of relapsed smokers identified through the VA pharmacy databases. The intervention strategy evaluated included a brief patient phone call and a tailored, computerized provider progress note to both encourage smoking patients to seek the tobacco dependence treatments they preferred, and to prompt providers to connect patients with their preferred treatments. Four progress note templates were generated for use in the intervention: (1) patient wanted to quit using nicotine replacement therapy      (PDF - 64 KB), (2) patient wanted to quit using bupropion and reported no potential contraindications to its use      (PDF - 75 KB), (3) patient wanted to quit using bupropion and reported potential contraindications to its use      (PDF - 76 KB), (4) patient successfully quit      (PDF - 59 KB). For more information on the RESET study, see: Fu SF, Partin MR, Snyder A, An LC, Nelson DB, Clothier B, Nugent S, Willenbring ML, Joseph AM. (2006) "Promoting repeat tobacco dependence treatment: Are relapsed smokers interested?" American Journal of Managed Care 12(4): 235-243. Home  |  Contact CCDOR  |  Contact Webmaster  |  Site Map