Cure me even if it kills me: Preferences for invasive cancer treatment

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 614-619

  Fagerlin, Angela ^a,b,c,d   Zikmund Fisher, Brian J ^a,b,c   Ubel, Peter A ^a,b,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine   (United States)

^d Division of General Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Decision making; MeSH; Omission bias; Survey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 27944449197     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X05282639     Document Type: Article

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