Shared decision-making in the medical encounter: What does it mean? (Or it takes, at least two to tango)

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 681-692

  Charles, Cathy ^a,b   Gafni, Amiram ^a,b   Whelan, Tim ^a,b,c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c JURAVINSKI CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Physician Patient communication; Shared treatment decision making

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MODEL; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT; PHYSICIAN; TERMINAL DISEASE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 0031023489     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00221-3     Document Type: Article

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