Relationship between physicians' uncertainty about clinical assessments and patient-centered recommendations for colorectal cancer screening in the elderly

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 458-466

  Dalton, Alexandra F ^a   Golin, Carol E ^b,c   Esserman, Denise ^d   Pignone, Michael P ^e   Pathman, Donald E ^e   Lewis, Carmen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

colorectal cancer screening; decision making; patient centered recommendations; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PHYSICIANS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84928994385     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X15572828     Document Type: Article

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