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David W. Kissane

Researcher at University of Notre Dame Australia

Publications -  326
Citations -  15329

David W. Kissane is an academic researcher from University of Notre Dame Australia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Palliative care & Psychosocial. The author has an hindex of 61, co-authored 311 publications receiving 13369 citations. Previous affiliations of David W. Kissane include Cornell University & Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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Demoralization syndrome--a relevant psychiatric diagnosis for palliative care.

TL;DR: Overall, demoralization syndrome has satisfactory face, descriptive, predictive, construct, and divergent validity, suggesting its utility as a diagnostic category in palliative care.
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Demoralization: Its Phenomenology and Importance:

TL;DR: The aim here is to review and summarize the literature pertaining to demoralization in order to examine the validity of the construct, and find a place for it in psychiatric nomenclature.
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Desire for Information and Involvement in Treatment Decisions: Elderly Cancer Patients' Preferences and Their Physicians' Perceptions

TL;DR: For older patients with advanced CRC, preferences for prognostic information and for an active role in treatment decision making are not easily predictable and physicians' perceptions are often inconsistent with patients' stated preferences.
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Psychiatric disorder in women with early stage and advanced breast cancer: a comparative analysis.

TL;DR: The rates of psychosocial distress are high, and similar, across patients with both early and advanced stage breast cancer, although the illness related causes of distress are different.