Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Oct 2007
Meta AnalysisTailored interventions to promote mammography screening: a meta-analytic review.
To evaluate the effectiveness of tailored interventions, designed to reach one specific person based on her unique characteristics, for promoting mammography use. ⋯ Tailored interventions, particularly those that employ the Health Belief Model and use a physician recommendation, are effective in promoting mammography screening. Future investigations should strive to use more standardized definitions of tailoring and assessments of mammography outcomes.