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Cancer care

Posted by : Medical Impact on | Feb 14,2015

Cancer care

Decision-making controlled by doctors leads to poorer ratings from cancer patients on the quality of their care and physician communication, a survey reveals. It shows that reaching decisions in a shared way with patients is important even for those patients who prefer their doctors to take the control. Dr. Nancy Keating, from Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, worked with her co-authors on survey results from patients diagnosed with lung or colorectal cancer. The study analyzed responses from 5,315 pat

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