Speaking Up: How Patient and Physician Voices Shaped a Trial to Improve Goals-of-Care Discussions

Patient

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 489-501

  Solomon, Rachel ^a   Smith, Cardinale ^a   Kallio, Jay ^b   Fenollosa, Amy ^b   Benerofe, Barbara ^b   Jones, Laurence ^b   Adelson, Kerin ^c   Gonsky, Jason P ^d   Messner, Carolyn ^e   Bickell, Nina A ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven ^*  (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

^e CancerCare   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONSULTATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN; MALE; ONCOLOGIST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGED; DECISION MAKING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGED; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 85016484449     PISSN: 11781653     EISSN: 11781661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40271-017-0226-z     Document Type: Article

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