Research on clinical decisions made daily in family medicine

This issue presents research on the types of decisions that are required daily in family medicine. patients often make these health decisions,and family physicians help patients with these decisions daily. patients and their family physicians discuss when to quit screening for colon cancer,which treatment to choose for localized prostate cancer,when to test for pertussis when a cough is present,whether to take prescribed medications,how to complete more preventive services,and how to understand the new genetics