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Getting on the same page: Communication, patient involvement and shared understanding of "decisions" in oncology.

Aaron L LeppinMarleen KunnemanJulie HathawayCara FernandezVictor M MontoriJon C Tilburt
Published in: Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy (2017)
What counts as a "decision" in cancer care may be constructed within disparate social roles that leave many agendas unaddressed and decisions unmade. Changing the content of conversations to encourage explicit decisions about self-management and life context-related topics may have greater value in enabling shared understanding than promoting communication behaviours among already high-performing communicators.
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