Different attitudes of oncology clinicians toward truth telling of different stages of cancer

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1119-1125

  Jiang, Yu ^a   Li, Jun Ying ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Huang, Mei Juan ^a   Zhou, Lin ^a   Li, Mei ^a   Zhao, Xia ^b   Wei, Yu Quan ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Disclosure; Early stage cancer; Oncology clinicians; Terminal illness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CHINESE; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; ONCOLOGY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELATIVE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TERMINAL DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 33845460623     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-006-0071-4     Document Type: Article

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