Conveying uncertainty in prognosis to patients with ESRD

Blood Purification

Volumn 39, Issue 1-3, 2015, Pages 58-64

  Parvez, Sanah ^a   Abdel Kader, Khaled ^b   Song, Mi Kyung ^c   Unruh, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Physician patient relations; Prognosis; Truth disclosure; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PATIENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TRUST; UNCERTAINTY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHICS; HEMODIALYSIS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; PATIENTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PROGNOSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84923079705     PISSN: 02535068     EISSN: 14219735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000368954     Document Type: Conference Paper

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