How can we meet the information needs of patients with early stage papillary thyroid cancer considering radioactive iodine remnant ablation?

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 419-423

  Sawka, A M ^a,b   Straus, S ^c   Gafni, A ^d   Brierley, J D ^a   Tsang, R W ^a   Rotstein, L ^a   Ezzat, S ^a,b   Thabane, L ^d   Rodin, G ^a   Meiyappan, S ^a   David, D ^a   Goldstein, D P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b Divisions of Endocrinology ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EARLY CANCER; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; THYROID CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; SOFTWARE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952433524     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2010.03966.x     Document Type: Article

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