Evaluation of a Mammography Screening Decision Aid for Women Aged 75 and Older: Protocol for a Cluster-randomized Controlled Trial

Mara A Schonberg^1*, Christine E Kistler², Larissa Nekhlyudov³, Angela Fagerlin⁴, Roger B Davis¹, Christina C Wee¹, Edward R Marcantonio¹, Carmen L Lewis⁵, Whitney A Stanley¹, Trisha M. Crutchfield² and Mary Beth Hamel¹

¹Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA, E-mail: mschonbe@bidmc.harvard.edu

²Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, E-mail: mschonbe@bidmc.harvard.edu

³Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Department of Medicine, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Boston, MA, USA, E-mail: mschonbe@bidmc.harvard.edu

⁴VA Ann Arbor Center for Clinical Management, Departments of Internal Medicine and Psychology and Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA, E-mail: mschonbe@bidmc.harvard.edu

⁵Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA, E-mail: mschonbe@bidmc.harvard.edu

^*Corresponding Author: Mara A Schonberg, MD, MPH, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 1309 Beacon, Office 219, Brookline, MA 02446, USA, Tel: 617-754-1414, Fax: 617-754-1440 Email: