Experience with and attitudes to chemotherapy among newly employed nurses in oncological and surgical departments: A longitudinal study

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-16

  Bremnes, Roy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Chemotherapy; Hypothetical regimen; Longitudinal; Nurses

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033037556     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005200050216     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Bremnes RM, Andersen K, Wist EA (1995) Cancer patients, doctors, and nurses vary in their willingness to undertake cancer chemotherapy. Eur J Cancer 31A:1955-1959
2. Damrosch S, Denicoff AM, St Germain D, et al (1993) Oncology nurse and physician attitudes toward aggressive cancer treatment. Cancer Nurs 16:107-112
3. Emanuel EJ, Emanuel LL (1992) Four models for the physician - patient relationship. JAMA 267:2221-2226
4. Fost NC (1975) A surrogate system for informed consent. JAMA 233:800-803
5. Greenberg ER, Chute CG, Stukel T et al (1988) Social and economic factors in the choice of lung cancer treatment. A population-based study in two rural states. N Engl J Med 318:612-617
6. Greenfield S, Blanco DM, Elashoff RM, Ganz PA (1987) Pattern of care related to age of breast cancer patients. JAMA 257:2766-2770
7. Grover SA, Cook EF, Adam J, Coupal L, Goldman L (1989) Delayed diagnosis of gynecological tumors in elderly women: relation to national medical practice patterns. Am J Med 86:151-157
8. Hicks F, Corcoran G (1993) Hospice management of patients receiving cytotoxic chemotherapy: problems and opportunities. Br J Cancer 68:1205-1209
9. Holland JC (1989) Now we tell - but how well. J Clin Oncol 7:557-559
10. Hunter CP, Frelick RW, Feldman AR, et al (1987) Selection factors in clinical trials: results from the community clinical oncology program physician's patient log. Cancer Treat Rep 71:559-565
11. Kong A, Barnett GO, Mosteller F, Youtz C (1986) How medical professionals evaluate expressions of probability. N Engl J Med 315:740-744
12. Lindley CM, Hirsch JD (1994) Oncology nurses' attitudes, perceptions, and knowledge of quality-of-life assessments in patients with cancer. Oncol Nurs Forum 21:108-110
13. Mackillop WJ, O'Sullivan B, Ward GK (1987) Non-small cell lung cancer: how oncologists want to be treated. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 13:929-934
14. Monfardini S (1996) What do we know on variables influencing clinical decision-making in elderly cancer patients. Eur J Cancer [A] 32:12-14
15. Moore MJ, O'Sullivan B, Tannock IF (1988) How expert physicians would wish to be treated if they had genitourinary cancer. J Clin Oncol 13:1736-1745
16. Obrist R, Honegger HP, Pichert G, Senn HJ (1992) Physicians' attitudes in the treatment of elderly patients (pts) with aggressive NHL. Ann Oncol 3 [Suppl 5]:123
17. Rothenbacher D, Lutz MP, Porzsol F (1997) Treatment decisions in palliative cancer care: patients preferences for involvement and doctors' knowledge about it. Eur J Cancer 33:1184-1189
18. Samet J, Hunt WC, Key C, Humble CG, Goodwin JS (1986) Choice of cancer therapy varies with age of patient. JAMA 255:3385-3390
19. Schleifer SJ, Bhardwaj S, Lebovits A, Tanaka JS, Messe M, Strain JJ (1991) Predictors of physicians nonadherence to chemotherapy regimens. Cancer 67:945-951
20. Slevin ML, Plant H, Lynch D, Drinkwater J, Gregory WM (1988) Who should measure quality of life, the doctor or the patient. Br J Cancer 57:109-112
21. Slevin ML, Stubbs L, Plant HJ, et al (1990) Attitudes to chemotherapy: comparing views of patients with cancer with those of doctors, nurses and general public. Br Med J 300:1458-1460
22. Taylor KM, Margolese RG, Soskolne CL (1984) Physicians' reasons for not entering eligible patients in randomized clinical trials of surgery for breast cancer. N Engl J Med 310:1363-1367