Understanding palliative cancer chemotherapy: About shared decisions and shared trajectories

Health Care Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 164-174

  De Kort, Susanne J ^a   Pols, Jeannette ^a   Richel, Dick J ^b   Koedoot, Nelleke ^b   Willems, Dick L ^a  

^a Division of Clinical Methods and Public Health   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Medical ethics; Palliative cancer chemotherapy; Qualitative research; Shared decision making

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 77954564529     PISSN: 10653058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10728-009-0121-4     Document Type: Article

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