Empowering the cancer patient or controlling the tumor? A qualitative study of how cancer patients experience consultations with complementary and alternative medicine practitioners and physicians, respectively

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 195-200

  Steinsbekk, Aslak ^a   Launsø, Laila ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Communication; Complementary therapies; Neoplasms; Patient satisfaction; Physician patient relations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONSULTATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEALING; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; NORWAY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NORWAY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 19444363124     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735405276721     Document Type: Article

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