Withholding information from cancer patients as a physician's decision under risk

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 216-227

  Yaniv, Gideon ^a  

^a National Insurance Institute of Israel   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cancer patient; Expected utility theory; Information disclosure withholding; Prospect theory; Regret theory; Risk uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT INFORMATION; RISK; THEORY;

EID: 0034077950     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X0002000207     Document Type: Article

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