Interpreting patient decisional conflict scores: Behavior and emotions in decisions about treatment

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 78-84

  Knops, Anouk M ^a   Goossens, Astrid ^a   Ubbink, Dirk T ^a   Legemate, Dink A ^a   Stalpers, Lukas J ^a   Bossuyt, Patrick M ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

choice behavior; decisional conflict; decisional conflict scale

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; HUMAN; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

BEHAVIOR; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; PATIENTS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872347649     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X12453500     Document Type: Article

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