The DECISIONS study: A nationwide survey of United States adults regarding 9 common medical decisions

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 20-34

  Zikmund Fisher, Brian J ^a,b,c   Couper, Mick P ^b,c   Singer, Eleanor ^b,c   Levin, Carrie A ^d   Fowler, Floyd J ^d   Ziniel, Sonja ^e   Ubel, Peter A ^a,b,c,f   Fagerlin, Angela ^a,b,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine   (United States)

^d Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making   (United States)

^e BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

decision making; health care surveys; patient preference; patient centered care; physician patient relations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; COMMUNICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957563964     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X09353792     Document Type: Article

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