Patient-physician communication about health-related quality-of-life problems: Are non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivors willing to talk?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 31, Issue 31, 2013, Pages 3964-3970

  Arora, Neeraj K ^a   Jensen, Roxanne E ^b   Sulayman, Nadiyah ^b   Hamilton, Ann S ^c   Potosky, Arnold L ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SURVIVOR; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84891616455     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2012.47.6705     Document Type: Article

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