Cancer care communication: The power to harm and the power to heal?

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 34-40

  Thorne, Sally E ^a   Hislop, T Gregory ^b   Armstrong, Elizabeth Anne ^a   Oglov, Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer care; Cancer outcomes; Communication; Physician patient interaction; Psychosocial oncology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 40049096483     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2007.11.010     Document Type: Article

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