Talking about treatment benefits, harms, and what matters to patients in radiation oncology: an observational study.

Laurie PiloteLuc CôtéSelma Chipenda DansokhoÉmilie BrouillardAnik M C GiguèreFrance LégaréRoland GradHolly O Witteman

Published in: BMC medical informatics and decision making (2019)

Radiation oncology clinics may wish to use interprofessional care and initiate more discussions about what matters to patients to heed Jain's (2014) reminder that, "a patient isn't a disease with a body attached but a life into which a disease has intruded."

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