Journal article
Treatment decision-making in the medical encounter: Comparing the attitudes of French surgeons and their patients in breast cancer care
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To explore attitudes of French surgeons and their patients towards treatment decision-making (TDM) in the medical encounter.
METHODS: Surgeons involved in early stage breast cancer and their patients treated in a French cancer care network received a cross-sectional survey questionnaire containing examples of four different approaches to TDM: paternalistic, "some sharing", informed TDM and, shared TDM.
Authors
Nguyen F; Moumjid N; Charles C; Gafni A; Whelan T; Carrère M-O
Journal
Patient Education and Counseling, Vol. 94, No. 2, pp. 230–237
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
February 2014
DOI
10.1016/j.pec.2013.07.011
ISSN
0738-3991