Direct communication, the unquestionable ideal? Oncologists' accounts of communication of bleak prognoses

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1221-1228

  Rogg, Lotte ^a   Aasland, Olaf Gjerlow ^b,c   Graugaard, Peter Kjær ^b,d   Loge, Jon Håvard ^b,e  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c Research Institute of the Norwegian Medical Association   (Norway)

^d LOVISENBERG DIAKONALE HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

attitudes; cancer; oncology; patient physician communication; prognosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSULTATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EXPERIENCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RISK; SKILL; TERMINAL CARE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; NORWAY; PATIENTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PROGNOSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; TERMINALLY ILL; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 78349256293     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.1691     Document Type: Article

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