Patient, physician and presentational influences on clinical decision making for breast cancer: Results from a factorial experiment

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-57

  McKinlay, John B ^a   Burns, Risa B ^b   Durante, Richard ^a   Feldman, Henry A ^a   Freund, Karen M ^c   Harrow, Brooke S ^a   Irish, Julie T ^a   Kasten, Linda E ^a   Moskowitz, Mark A ^c  

^a NEW ENGLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Decision making; Patients; Physicians

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; RECALL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TEACHING; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SIMULATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0031062922     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.1997.tb00067.x     Document Type: Article

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