Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ489098
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Publication Date: 1994
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Attitudes of Oncologists, Oncology Nurses, and Patients from a Women's Clinic Regarding Medical Decision Making for Older and Younger Breast Cancer Patients.
Beisecker, Analee E.; And Others
Gerontologist, v34 n4 p505-12 Aug 1994
Administered Beisecker Locus of Authority in Decision Making: Breast Cancer survey to 67 oncologists, 94 oncology nurses, and 288 patients from women's clinic. All groups believed that physicians should have dominant role in decision making. Nurses felt that patients should have more input than patients or physicians felt they should. Physicians advocated least patient input. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cancer, Decision Making, Locus of Control, Nurses, Patients, Physician Patient Relationship, Physicians
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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