Person-centered radiography in medical imaging and cancer screening
My research embraces a broad range of research projects for the development of person-centered radiography in medical imaging. The projects focus on the individual's perspective in health care and covers areas as follows: 1) evaluation of patient-reported outcomes in cancer screening, 2) development and validation of person-centered decision aids in cancer screening, 3) investigation of psychometric properties of measurements of patient-reported outcomes, awareness and informed decisions in cancer screening, and 3) development of the framework of person-centered radiography. My research projects also involve development of medical imaging methods for improved diagnostics and patient care.
Implications for practice in health care: The individual's perspective on cancer screening is expected to support the development of evidence-based, tailored and person-centered information about cancer screening in order to promote an informed decision on (non-)participation. Such information would support a sound awareness of the potential effects of screening and respect autonomy of an individual.
Furthermore, the project results provide the individual's perspective on cancer screening programs. Awareness of the concept of person-centered care in diagnostic imaging is expected to provide tools for person-centeredness in cancer diagnostics and treatment follow-up. Also, the project results are intended to strengthen the evidence-based practice among radiographers in patient care and the provision of person-centered radiography. My research results of the psychometric properties of measurement tools and the evaluation of new diagnostic methodologies in imaging are supposed to contribute to the standardization of methods in cancer diagnostics.
Implications for research: New cancer screening programs are being developed in Sweden and current programs expand. Accordingly, the individual's perspective on cancer screening should be studied. The concept of person-centered care of an individual in need of healthcare has recently been introduced but the concept is unknown in medical imaging. Development of person-centered radiography is needed along with the evaluation of the effects of person-centeredness in diagnostic imaging.
Collaborations: SCROPT, Swedish Consortium of Research on OPT, Organised Prostate cancer Testing, Sweden. Department of Health Sciences, Umeå University, Sweden. Clinical Epidemiology of Early Cancer Detection at German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany. Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study, SCAPIS, Sweden. PMhealth, Swedish national network for Psychometrics and Metrology in the health sciences, Sweden.
Anetta Bolejko
Associate professor, Principal investigator
Anetta.Bolejko@med.lu.se