Bad news and first impressions: Patient and family caregiver accounts of learning the cancer diagnosis

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 912-921

  Schaepe, Karen Sue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bad news; Cancer; Diagnosis; Family caregiver; Narrative; Physician patient communication; United States

Indexed keywords

CANCER; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH STATUS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT INFORMATION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CAREGIVERS; COMMUNICATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TRUST;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052266753     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.038     Document Type: Article

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