Hysterectomy: Improving the patient's decision-making process

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 868-877

  Gambone, Joseph C ^a   Reiter, Robert C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTIVE SURGERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INFORMED CONSENT; MANAGED CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW;

PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

CYSTS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INFORMED CONSENT; LEIOMYOMA; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; UTERINE DISEASES; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031410379     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003081-199712000-00022     Document Type: Review

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