Applying strategies from libertarian paternalism to decision making for prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening

BMC Cancer

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wheeler, David C ^a   Szymanski, Konrad M ^b   Black, Amanda ^a   Nelson, David E ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EMOTION; FEAR; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INFORMED DECISION MAKING; LIBERTARIAN PATERNALISM; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; OVERDIAGNOSIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHILOSOPHY; PROSTATE CANCER; SHARED DECISION MAKING; THINKING; TIME; TIME DELAY; TIMING; DECISION MAKING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHICS; FREEDOM; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATERNALISM; PROSTATE TUMOR;

DECISION MAKING; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FREEDOM; HUMANS; MALE; PATERNALISM; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79954625569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-11-148     Document Type: Article

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