OBJECTIVE: To ascertain whether the quality of physician-patient communication makes a
significant difference to patient health outcomes. DATA SOURCES: The MEDLINE database …

A diagnosis of cancer typically results in patients experiencing uncertainty about and loss of
control over their situation, which in turn has a negative influence on their health outcomes …

The Patient-Centered Clinical Method (PCCM) has been a core tenet of the practice and
teaching of medicine since the first edition of Patient-Centered Medicine-Transforming the …

Abstract Use of the Rotterdam Symptom Checklist (RSCL) to measure psychological and
physical distress as experienced by cancer patients, is discussed in this paper. The stability …

The aim of this review paper is to critique the empirical literature pertaining to the
communication needs and goals of cancer patients, and to provide direction for research in …

Purpose This study explored patient preferences for involvement in the breast cancer
treatment decision and concordance between patients' and physicians' views on decisional …

In recent years, doubt has been shed on the necessity of mastectomy for women with early-
stage breast cancer. Apart from purely medical studies comparing (radical) mastectomy to …

This reprinted article originally appeared in (Health Psychology, 16 (3), 284-298 (1997).(The
following abstract of the original article appeared in record 1997-06152-012.) Effective …

This study examined relationships between cancer patients' preference for involvement in
making treatment decisions and preferences for information about diagnosis, treatment, side …

Background. This investigation examined factors affecting patient involvement in
consultations to decide local treatment for early breast cancer and the effectiveness of two …