The roulette wheel: An aid to informed decision making

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 0743-0748

  Hoffman, Jerome R ^a   Wilkes, Michael S ^b   Day, Frank C ^a   Bell, Douglas S ^a   Higa, Jerilyn K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE ANTIGEN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

CANCER SCREENING; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL RESEARCH; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PHYSICIAN; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLOOD; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE TUMOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME; URINE INCONTINENCE;

AGED; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 33745632088     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030137     Document Type: Review

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