Original article: Disclosure of breast cancer diagnosis: Patient and physician reports
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Comparison of patient and physician reports should not be used to validate either source of information, but the degree of patient-physician disagreement found in this research may alert physicians to potential difficulties that can arise in communicating with cancer patients.About:
This article is published in Annals of Oncology.The article was published on 1991-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 79 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Patient satisfaction & Breast cancer.read more
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The Italian SF-36 Health Survey: Translation, Validation and Norming
Giovanni Apolone,Paola Mosconi +1 more
TL;DR: Empirical findings from a wide array of studies and diseases indicate that the performance of the questionnaire improved as the Italian translation was revised and that it met the standards suggested by the literature in terms of feasibility, psychometric tests, and interpretability.
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Cancer information disclosure in different cultural contexts
TL;DR: The relationship between truth telling and culture has been the subject of increasing attention in the literature, but the issue of whether, how and how much to tell cancer patients concerning diagnosis is still approached differently depending on country and culture.
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Promoting patient participation in the cancer consultation: evaluation of a prompt sheet and coaching in question-asking.
TL;DR: It is concluded that a question prompt sheet addressed by the doctor is a simple, inexpensive and effective means of promoting patient question asking in the cancer consultation.
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Physicians' attitudes to and problems with truth-telling to cancer patients.
TL;DR: Despite changes in medical education, improvement of communication skills in dealing with cancer patients and their families represents an important need in healthcare settings.
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Truth telling to the patient.
TL;DR: The Virtual Mentor journal as discussed by the authors is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association (AMAJIA), which allows physicians to determine how much information to share with patients about their medical prognosis.
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Changes in physicians' attitudes toward telling the cancer patient
Dennis H. Novack,Robin Plumer,Raymond L. Smith,Herbert Ochitill,Gary R. Morrow,John M. Bennett +5 more
TL;DR: Physicians are still basing their policies on emotion-laden personal conviction rather than the outcome of properly designed scientific studies, and less likelihood that they would change their present policy or be swayed by research.
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Cancer patients' perceptions of their disease and its treatment.
TL;DR: Interactions between doctor and patients were not observed directly and it was not possible to determine whether patients' inaccurate views of their illness were due to suboptimal communication or denial.
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Improve the counselling skills of doctors and nurses in cancer care.
Peter Maguire,Ann Faulkner +1 more
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Words as Scalpels: Transmitting Evidence in the Clinical Dialogue
TL;DR: Rationales and policies developed by physicians through history about what to tell patients found to have serious illness, including the moral aspects of this problem but also its clinical dimensions, such as mastering the skill to discuss threatening news with patients, are examined.