Functional health literacy, chemotherapy decisions, and outcomes among a colorectal cancer cohort

Cancer Control

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 95-101

  Busch, Evan L ^a   Martin, Christopher ^b   DeWalt, Darren A ^b   Sandler, Robert S ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT INFORMATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHORT TEST OF FUNCTIONAL HEALTH LITERACY IN ADULTS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VITAL SIGN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; SELF CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84924777882     PISSN: 10732748     EISSN: 15262359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107327481502200112     Document Type: Article

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