The Challenge of Discrepancies in Values among Physicians, Patients, and Family Members

Cancer

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1771-1775

  Kissane, David W ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIA; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; FAMILY; HUMAN; KOREA; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 1942466650     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20180     Document Type: Editorial

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