Patient-Physician Communication During Outpatient Palliative Treatment Visits
JAMAPublished 14 March 2001
Symone Detmar, Martin J. Muller, Liowina D. V. Wever, Jan H. Schornagel, Neil K. Aaronson
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The amount of patient-physician communication devoted to such issues remains limited and appears to make only a modest contribution, at least in an explicit sense, to the evaluation of treatment efficacy in daily clinical practice.
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Despite increasing recognition of the importance of maintaining patients' HRQL as a goal of palliative treatment, the amount of patient-physician communication devoted to such issues remains limited and appears to make only a modest contribution, at least in an explicit sense, to the evaluation of treatment efficacy in daily clinical practice.
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