Communicating prognosis to patients with metastatic disease: What do they really want to know?

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 161-168

  Butow, P ^a   Dowsett, S ^a   Hagerty, R ^a   Tattersall, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communication; Metastatic cancer; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; METASTASIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMMUNICATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0036933491     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005200100290     Document Type: Article

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