Monitoring and blunting in palliative and curative radiotherapy consultations

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1111-1120

  Timmermans, Liesbeth M ^a   van Zuuren, Florence J ^b   van der Maazen, Richard W M ^a   Leer, Jan Willem H ^a   Kraaimaat, Floris W ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cancer; Communication in oncology; Curative treatment; Monitoring blunting cognitive style; Palliative treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COGNITION; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NETHERLANDS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 37349070763     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.1177     Document Type: Article

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