Exploration of how women make treatment decisions after a breast cancer diagnosis

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Spittler, Cheryl A ^a   Pallikathayil, Leonie ^b   Bott, Marjorie ^b  

^a Quinn Plastic Surgery Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MARRIAGE; MASTECTOMY; MENTAL STRESS; NURSING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES;

ANXIETY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MARITAL STATUS; MASTECTOMY; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN;

EID: 84865993246     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/12.ONF.E425-E433     Document Type: Article

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