Physicians’ decision-making style and psychosocial outcomes among cancer survivors
Patient Education and CounselingPublished 5 November 2009Open access
Neeraj K. Arora, Kathryn E. Weaver, Marla L. Clayman, Ingrid Oakley‐Girvan, Arnold L. Potosky
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A participatory physician style may improve survivors' mental health by a complex two-step mechanism of improving survivors' proximal communication and intermediate cognitive outcomes.
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Physicians who adopt a participatory decision-making style are likely to facilitate patient empowerment and enhance patients' HRQOL.
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