Communication and consumer decision making about cancer clinical trials.
Patient Educ Couns
; 50(1): 39-42, 2003 May.
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| ID: mdl-12767583
ABSTRACT
Communication between patients and physicians likely mediates traditional patient and physician predispositions in determining patient outcomes, including perceptions and decision making. However, the extent to which a mediating effect occurs is unclear. The purpose of this essay is to outline the need for conceptualizing more holistic models of consumer-provider interaction that demonstrate the role of the therapeutic relationship in treatment outcomes. We focus on an important communicative context for exploring this question the situation where patients, with the help of oncologists, are faced with making treatment choices, particularly whether to enroll in a clinical trial in response to their life-threatening cancer diagnosis. We explore the question from the perspectives of the medical provider, the patient, and the accompanying family member, in order to better frame the complex interactional dynamics occurring during the interaction.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Participação do Paciente
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Relações Médico-Paciente
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Ensaios Clínicos como Assunto
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Comunicação
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Seleção de Pacientes
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Neoplasias
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Patient Educ Couns
Ano de publicação:
2003
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos