Should informed consent for cancer treatment include a discussion about hospital outcome disparities?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1413-1417

  Housri, Nadine ^a   Weil, Robert J ^b   Shalowitz, David I ^c   Koniaris, Leonidas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SURGERY; CANCER THERAPY; DECISION MAKING; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; ETHICS; HONESTY; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS SURGERY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; TRUST; ARTICLE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 55949084017     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050214     Document Type: Review

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