Patient perceptions of oncologist-patient communication about prognosis: Changes from initial diagnosis to cancer recurrence

Health Communication

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 48-58

  Step, Mary M ^a   Ray, Eileen Berlin ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; ONCOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79751497583     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2011.527621     Document Type: Article

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