Mind the gap: Physicians' assessment of patients' importance weights in localized prostate cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The management of localized prostate cancer is challenging because of the many therapeutic options available, none of which is generally acknowledged as superior to the others in every respect. The selection of the most appropriate treatment should therefore reflect patients' preferences.

Objective

The purpose of the following study was to pilot a new approach for investigating whether urologists who had previously provided patients with therapeutic advice actually knew their patients' importance weights concerning the relevant aspects of the treatments at issue.

Method

Participants were patients recently diagnosed with localized prostate cancer (n = 20), urologists (n = 10), and non-medical professionals (architects, n = 10). These last served as a control

SUBMITTER: Tentori K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6062014 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature