This Perspective discusses how clinicians can navigate conflicting vaccination recommendations following revisions from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and US Centers for Disease Cont...

Effective science translation is essential during public health emergencies. During the COVID-19 pandemic, rapidly evolving research had to be transla…

Uptake of lung cancer screening (LCS) in the U.S. has been limited, and some groups have argued that the unprecedented Centers for Medicare & Medicaid…

The new Trump administration multiyear funding policy for NIH grants has dropped National Cancer Institute grant funding rates from one in 10 applicants to one in 25.

This JAMA Insights provides evidence-based recommendations for communicating numerical information to patients.

To explore the ability of artificial intelligence to produce comparison tables to facilitate shared decision-making.An expert human-generated comparis…

Background: Web-based patient portals can benefit adolescents and their caregivers by increasing access and providing greater understanding of one’s health information, enhancing communication with cl...

The School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis is rapidly expanding with new people, spaces and initiatives. In August, faculty and staff gathered to begin shaping the school’s stra...

The foundation of shared decision making (SDM) is the view that people should be aware of relevant choices, and that their personal views, priorities and preferences are relevant factors when determin...

This study evaluates changes in colorectal cancer screening uptake among adults aged 45 to 49 years.

In this narrative medicine essay, a family medicine physician works through the challenge of responding to the medical advice patients bring from ChatGPT to understanding patients’ need to be heard.

SDM is an essential component of high-quality, patient-centered care, yet this study identified that over a third of surgical patients reported inadequate SDM. Attention paid to improving SDM is criti...

This cohort study investigates the out-of-pocket costs associated with breast, colorectal, and lung cancer among patients younger than 65 years with private insurance.

Background Implementation strategies are deliberate systematic actions used to support the uptake of innovations in health and social care. While widely used taxonomies such as ERIC and EPOC have emer...

Sharing power and decision-making enhanced the capacity for local-level dissemination, which is much needed to advance the science of community partnerships.

npj Digital Medicine - A randomized controlled trial to evaluate innovative decision support in the context of fall prevention

npj Digital Medicine - Systematic review to understand users perspectives on AI-enabled decision aids to inform shared decision making

In 20 years of researching and teaching health risk communication methods, the most common question we get is: how should I communicate this [adverse event risk, survival probability, etc.] so that pa...

This cross-sectional study uses Hospital Price Transparency and Transparency in Coverage data to examine variation in commercial insurance payment rates for common surgical services.

PURPOSETo explore long-term young adult (YA) cancer survivors' experience with health insurance in a post–Affordable Care Act (ACA) era.METHODSThis was a mixed-methods analysis of insurance-related da...

Background Our objective was to quantify the cumulative total and out-of-pocket (OOP) costs for 3 non-metastatic prostate cancer treatment modalities: radiation, surgery, and conservative management a...

Amid growing misinformation, Washington University in St. Louis health experts provided Rolla leaders with clear data to support smart health policy. City leaders voted to preserve fluoride in the wat...

Risk information is increasingly available to health care providers and patients thanks to a growing body of health outcomes research and clinical prediction models. Meanwhile, communicating such info...

Background: As the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)–approved use of artificial intelligence (AI) for medical imaging rises, radiologists are increasingly integrating AI into their clinical practi...

On Friday, May 16, a severe storm impacted lives across St. Louis. More than 5,000 homes in the region were affected, along with parts of our campus. We are holding everyone impacted in our hearts and...

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Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

We conducted a scoping review to determine what is known about the prevalence and consequences of unmet social needs in U.S. cancer survivors, what screening tools are used to assess these needs, and ...

“Accelerating Translation: The Science of Moving Forward” Join the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) for the 7th annual ICTS Symposium. This year’s theme highlights differences i...

This cluster randomized clinical trial of parent-child dyads examines the effect of a clinician vaccine communication strategy on vaccine uptake among children of parents with negative vaccine attitud...

The effect of a shared decision-making approach on patients’ code status decisions remains unknown. We compared an approach for shared decision-making with usual care to evaluate the effect on pati...

This Special Communication introduces the updated Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) 2025 statement, which includes substantive and structural changes to account for recent methodolo...

Background Financial toxicity (FT) is a common and significant challenge for people with cancer, impacting immediate clinical outcomes such as treatment adherence, as well as long-term outcomes such...

Some people's insurance plans change from free to $5 or $10/month. That small difference is enough for many of them to lose coverage.

Purpose Financial hardship (FH) and financial toxicity (FT) are associated with worse outcomes among cancer patients, and older adults experiencing transportation issues are more likely to miss follow...

This JAMA Insights discusses personal and organizational health literacy and offers recommendations on how clinicians and health care institutions can improve their patients’ health literacy skills.

Background: High blood pressure (≥140/90 mm Hg) is the most prominent mortality risk factor worldwide. Home blood pressure measurement (HBPM) is recommended for blood pressure (BP) management. HBPM is...

This survey study estimates the prevalence of direct exposure to mass shootings among US adults and identifies the sociodemographic groups most exposed.

This study examines the use of preventive lung, breast, and colorectal cancer screening among eligible and ineligible US adults.

Objectives To evaluate how women react to a decision aid (DA) informing them of the harms and benefits of mammography, including overdiagnosis. Background Breast cancer is the most common cancer affe...

Objective Current consent processes often fail to communicate study information effectively and may lead to disparities in study participation. The 2018 Common Rule introduced a mandatory key informat...

This randomized noninferiority trial assesses the effect of a strategy of active monitoring vs guideline-concordant care on 2-year risk of ipsilateral invasive breast cancer among women with low-risk ...

The Journal attempts to publish valid, readable manuscripts of interest and value to a general medical audience. Some editorial decisions are relatively easy. These involve submissions of obviously ou...

Self-scheduling was linked to increased screening mammography completion rates postimplementation when compared to traditional scheduling.

This Viewpoint discusses the need to expand the pipeline of physician-scientists trained in the social sciences and humanities to meet the growing demand for leaders who can fully integrate medicine a...

Purpose This systematic review aims to identify the implementation strategies of financial navigation and systematically synthesise its effects on mitigating financial toxicity among cancer survivors,...