How oncologists and their patients with advanced cancer communicate about health-related quality of life

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 490-499

  Rodriguez, Keri L ^a,b   Bayliss, Nichole ^a   Alexander, Stewart C ^c,d   Jeffreys, Amy S ^c   Olsen, Maren K ^c,d   Pollak, Kathryn I ^d,e   Kennifer, Sarah L ^d   Tulsky, James A ^c,d   Arnold, Robert M ^b,f  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e DUKE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Communication; Oncology; Patient provider relationship; Qualitative research; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; COLON CANCER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 77951124172     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.1579     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. McCarthy EP, Phillips RS, Zhong Z et al. Dying with cancer: patients' function, symptoms, and care preferences as death approaches. J Am Geriatr Soc 2000;48:S110-S121. (Pubitemid 30266003)
2. Bergner M. Quality of life, health status, and clinical research. Med Care 1989;27:S148-S156.
3. Cella DF. Quality of life: concepts and definition. J Pain Symptom Manage 1994;9:186-192.
4. Mast ME. Definition and measurement of quality of life in oncology nursing research: review and theoretical implications. Oncol Nurs Forum 1995;22:957-964.
5. Cella DF, Patel JD. Improving health-related quality of life in non-small-cell lung cancer with current treatment options. Clin Lung Cancer 2008;9:206-212.
6. Halyard MY, Ferrans CE. Quality-of-Life assessment for routine oncology clinical practice. J Support Oncol 2008;6:221-233.
7. World Health Organization. Cancer pain relief and palliative care. Technical Report, Series 804, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1990.
8. World Health Organization. Constitution of the World Health Organization: Chronicle of the World Health Organization, vol. 1. World Health Organization: Geneva, 1947.
9. Fairclough DL. Design and Analysis of Quality of Life Studies in Clinical Trials: Interdisciplinary Statistics. Chapman & Hall/CRC: Boca Raton, FL, 2002.
10. Coates A, Gebski V, Signorini D et al. Prognostic value of quality-of-life scores during chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer: Australian New Zealand Breast Cancer Trials Group. J Clin Oncol 1992;10: 1833-1838.
11. Dancey J, Zee B, Osoba D et al. Quality of life scores: an independent prognostic variable in a general population of cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. The National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group. Qual Life Res 1997;6:151-158. (Pubitemid 27207280)
12. Ganz PA, Lee JJ, Siau J. Quality of life assessment: an independent prognostic variable for survival in lung cancer. Cancer 1991;67:3131-3135.
13. Wilsoff F, Hjorth M. Health-related quality of life assessed before and during chemotherapy predicts for survival in multiple myeloma. Nordic Myeloma Study Group. Br J Haematol 1997;97:29-37. (Pubitemid 27179561)
14. Cooley ME. Quality of life in persons with non-small cell lung cancer: a concept analysis. Cancer Nurs 1998;21:151-161. (Pubitemid 28235142)
15. Tanaka T, Gotay CC. Physicians' and medical students' perspectives on patients' quality of life. Acad Med 1998;73:1003-1005. (Pubitemid 28435817)
16. Fallowfield L, Ratcliffe D, Jenkins V, Saul J. Psychiatric morbidity and its recognition by doctors in patients with cancer. Br J Cancer 2001;84:1011-1015. (Pubitemid 32448494)
17. National Health and Medical Research Council. Psychosocial Clinical Practice Guidelines: Information, Support and Counseling for Women with Breast Cancer, National Health and Medical Research Council, 2000.
18. Comstock LM, Hooper EM, Goodwin JM, Goodwin JS. Physician behaviors that correlate with patient satisfaction. J Med Educ 1982;57:105-112.
19. Frederickson LG. Exploring information-exchange in consultation: the patients' view of performance and outcomes. Patient Educ Couns 1995;25:237-246.
20. Richards T. Chasms in communication. Br Med J 1990;301:1407-1408.
21. Stewart MA. Effective physician - patient communication and health outcomes: a review. Can Med Assoc J 1995;152:1423-1433.
22. Detmar SB, Muller MJ, Schornagel JH et al. Health-related quality-of-life assessments and patient - physician communication: a randomized controlled trial. J Am Med Assoc 2002;288:3027-3034.
23. Koropchak CM, Pollak KI, Arnold RM et al. Studying communication in oncologist - patient encounters: The SCOPE Trial. Palliat Med 2006;20:813-819.
24. Neuendorf K. The Content Analysis Guidebook. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA, 2002.
25. Robinson TM, Alexander SC, Hays M et al. Patient - oncologist communication in advanced cancer: predictors of patient perception of prognosis. Support Care Cancer 2008;16:1049-1057.
26. Kuzel AJ. Sampling in qualitative inquiry. In Doing Qualitative Research, Crabtree BF, Miller WL (eds), vol. 3. Sage: Newbury Park, CA, 1992.
27. Strauss A. Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1987.
28. Cohen J. A coefficient of agreement for nominal scales: an asymmetric version of kappa. Educ Psychol Meas 1960;20:37-46.
29. Landis JR, Koch GG. The measurement of observer agreement for categorical data. Biometrics 1977;33:159-174.
30. Morris J, Perez D, McNoe B. The use of quality of life data in clinical practice. Qual Life Res 1998;7: 85-91.
31. Cella DF, Tulsky DS. Quality of life in cancer: definition, purpose, and method of measurement. Cancer Invest 1993;11:327-336.
32. Cella DF. Measuring quality of life in palliative care. Semin Oncol 1995;22:73-81.
33. Greisinger AJ, Lorimor RJ, Aday LA et al. Terminally ill cancer patients. Their most important concerns. Cancer Pract 1997;5:147-154.
34. Davis S, Kristjanson LJ, Blight J. Communicating with families of patients in an acute hospital with advanced cancer: problems and strategies identified by nurses. Cancer Nurs 2003;26:337-345.
35. Gattellari M, Butow PN, Tattersall MH. Sharing decisions in cancer care. Soc Sci Med 2001;52: 1865-1878.
36. Hulka BS, Cassel JC, Kupper LL, Burdette JA. Communication, compliance and concordance between physicians and patients with prescribed medications. Am J Public Health 1976;66:847-853.
37. Kasteler J, Kane RL, Olsen DM, Thetford C. Issues underlying prevalence of "doctor-shopping" behavior. J Health Soc Behav 1976;17:329-339.
38. Roberts C, Cox CE, Reintgen DS et al. Influence of physician communication on newly diagnosed breast cancer patients' psychologic adjustment and decision-making. Cancer 1994;74:336-341.