The ethics of responsibility and ownership in decision-making about treatment for breast cancer: Triangulation of consultation with patient and surgeon perspectives

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1904-1911

  Mendick, Nicola ^b   Young, Bridget ^a   Holcombe, Christopher ^b   Salmon, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL LIVERPOOL AND BROADGREEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Clinical communication; Decision making; Ethics; UK

Indexed keywords

CANCER; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE TREATMENT; ETHICS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURGEON; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TAPE RECORDING;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77952673089     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.12.039     Document Type: Article

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