Current state of the art and science of patient-clinician communication in progressive disease: Patients' need to know and need to feel known

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 31, 2014, Pages 3474-3478

  Van Vliet, Liesbeth M ^a   Epstein, Andrew S ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONSULTATION; DEATH; DISEASES; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMPATHY; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICINE; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN; PROGNOSIS; PROGRESSIVE DISEASE; REVIEW; TERMINAL CARE; TRAINING; DISEASE COURSE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGY;

COMMUNICATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84911494814     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2014.56.0425     Document Type: Review

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