Cancer patients' and patient advocates' perspectives on a novel information source: A qualitative study of The Art of Oncology, When the Tumor Is Not the Target

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 4013-4020

  Vickers, Kristin S ^a   Hathaway, Julie C ^a   Patten, Christi A ^a   Clark, Matthew M ^a   Britt, Teresa L ^a   Looker, Sherry A ^a   Johnson, Phaedra T ^a   Loprinzi, Charles L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STOUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NOTE; ONCOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; ARTICLE; HOSPICE CARE; INTERVIEW; LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SURVIVOR; TERMINAL CARE;

FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LITERATURE; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SURVIVORS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 23044504471     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.12.029     Document Type: Note

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