"So you think I'll survive?": A qualitative study about doctor-patient dialogues preceding high-risk cardiac surgery or intervention

Heart

Volumn 95, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1245-1249

  Schaufel, Margrethe Aase ^a,b   Nordrehaug, J E ^a,b   Malterud, K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c Research Unit for General Practice   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVERSATION; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESPONSIBILITY; SURVIVAL; TRUST; UNCERTAINTY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; TRUST;

EID: 67650708131     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2008.164657     Document Type: Article

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