Discussing prognosis: "How much do you want to know?" Talking to patients who do not want information or who are ambivalent

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 4214-4217

  Back, Anthony L ^a   Arnold, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIVALENCE; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NOTE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MENTAL STRESS; NEOPLASM; PATIENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TRUST;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; NEGOTIATING; NEOPLASMS; PATIENTS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRUST; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 33748660849     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2006.06.008     Document Type: Note

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