Patient real-time and 12-month retrospective perceptions of difficult communications in the cancer diagnostic period

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1383-1394

  Thorne, Sally ^a   Armstrong, Elizabeth Anne ^a   Harris, Susan R ^a   Hislop, T Gregory ^b   Kim Sing, Charmaine ^a   Oglov, Valerie ^a   Oliffe, John L ^a   Stajduhar, Kelli I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Communication; Health care; Psychosocial issues; Quality of life; Relationships

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONVALESCENCE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 70350034021     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732309348382     Document Type: Article

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