The liability of giving patients a choice: Shared decision making and prostate cancer

American Family Physician

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1871-1872

  Woolf, Steven H ^a   Krist, Alex ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL LIABILITY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROSTATE CANCER;

COUNSELING; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; LIABILITY, LEGAL; MALE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 18844430597     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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