Treatment decision making in prostate cancer: Patients’ participation in complex decisions
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Treatment decision making in prostate cancer: patients' participation in complex decisions.
OBJECTIVE (1) To explore to what degree prostate cancer (PC) patients felt they had participated in treatment decision making (TDM). (2) To determine whether perceived roles during TDM were associated with medical and sociodemographic variables. (3) To examine to what extent satisfaction with TDM was related to perceived role or medical and sociodemographic variables. METHODS Patients (n=126)...
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عنوان ژورنال: Patient Education and Counseling
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0738-3991
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2006.07.009