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- Title
Physician-Patient Interaction and Hysterectomy Decision Making: The ENDOW Study.
- Authors
Richter, Donna L.; Kenzig, Melissa J.; Greaney, Mary L.; McKeown, Robert E.; Saunders, Ruth P.; Corwin, Sara J.
- Abstract
Objective: To investigate physician-patient communication in the context of hysterectomy decision making. Methods: A series of 17 focus groups with African American and white women (n=82) between the ages of 30 and 65 were run. Personal interviews with physicians (n=7) also were conducted. Transcripts were analyzed using NUD*IST software and note-based techniques. Results: For both patients and physicians, the optimal physician-patient interaction would be for the physician to provide plain, usable information to the patient allowing the patient to make the hysterectomy decision. Conclusions: The current state of physician-patient interaction represents collaboration but not a shared approach approximating the deliberative model.
- Subjects
PHYSICIAN-patient relations; HYSTERECTOMY
- Publication
American Journal of Health Behavior, 2002, Vol 26, Issue 6, p431
- ISSN
1087-3244
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5993/AJHB.26.6.4