Physician Recommendations Trump Patient Preferences in Prostate Cancer Treatment Decisions

Karen A. Scherr, Angela Fagerlin, Timothy Hofer, Laura D. Scherer, Margaret Holmes-Rovner, Lillie D. Williamson, Valerie C. Kahn, Jeffrey S. Montgomery, Kirsten L. Greene, Biqi Zhang and Peter A. Ubel

Medical Decision Making, 2017, vol. 37, issue 1, 56-69

Abstract: Objective. To assess the influence of patient preferences and urologist recommendations in treatment decisions for clinically localized prostate cancer. Methods. We enrolled 257 men with clinically localized prostate cancer (prostate-specific antigen

Keywords: Prostate cancer; Urology; Physician-Patient Communication; Qualitative Methods; Shared Decision Making; Hierarchical Models; Logistic Regression Models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0272989X16662841

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