Assessing risk communication in breast cancer: Are continuous measures of patient knowledge better than categorical?

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 106-112

  Belkora, Jeffrey ^a   Moore, Dan H ^a   Hutton, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjuvant!; Breast cancer; Decision aids; Information theory; Measurement; Patient education; Patient knowledge; Physician patient relations; Realistic expectations; Risk communication; Shared decision making; Software

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CONSULTATION; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMMUNICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 67349173676     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2008.11.012     Document Type: Article

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