When do cancer patients regret their treatment decision? A path analysis of the influence of clinicians' communication styles and the match of decision-making styles on decision regret

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 739-746

  Nicolai, Jennifer ^a,b   Buchholz, Angela ^c   Seefried, Nathalie ^a   Reuter, Katrin ^d   Härter, Martin ^c   Eich, Wolfgang ^a   Bieber, Christiane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision making style; Empathy; Patient involvement; Patient preferences; Physician patient communication; Shared decision making

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; COLON CANCER; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PARALLEL DESIGN; PATH ANALYSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; VERY ELDERLY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTION; EMPATHY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84949654797     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: 18735134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2015.11.019     Document Type: Article

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