TERMINAL ILLNESS IN AN INDIAN SETTING: PROBLEMS OF COMMUNICATION

A study of 50 terminally ill cancer patients revealed that 52% were uninformed regarding their diagnosis and prognosis. In almost all cases the relatives had been adequately informed. No less than 82% of the terminally ill patients showed an awareness of the fatal prognosis. Most of the patients fou...

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Autores principales: Khanna, R., Singh, R.P.N.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1988
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3010602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927320
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description A study of 50 terminally ill cancer patients revealed that 52% were uninformed regarding their diagnosis and prognosis. In almost all cases the relatives had been adequately informed. No less than 82% of the terminally ill patients showed an awareness of the fatal prognosis. Most of the patients found the communication with the doctor and the relatives as unsatisfactory. Comparing this group with another group of non-terminal medically ill patients showed striking differences between the two groups. The findings are compared with those reported from the West and the implications of the above observations discussed.
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spelling pubmed-30106022011-09-16 TERMINAL ILLNESS IN AN INDIAN SETTING: PROBLEMS OF COMMUNICATION Khanna, R. Singh, R.P.N. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article A study of 50 terminally ill cancer patients revealed that 52% were uninformed regarding their diagnosis and prognosis. In almost all cases the relatives had been adequately informed. No less than 82% of the terminally ill patients showed an awareness of the fatal prognosis. Most of the patients found the communication with the doctor and the relatives as unsatisfactory. Comparing this group with another group of non-terminal medically ill patients showed striking differences between the two groups. The findings are compared with those reported from the West and the implications of the above observations discussed. Medknow Publications 1988 /pmc/articles/PMC3010602/ /pubmed/21927320 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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TERMINAL ILLNESS IN AN INDIAN SETTING: PROBLEMS OF COMMUNICATION
title TERMINAL ILLNESS IN AN INDIAN SETTING: PROBLEMS OF COMMUNICATION
title_full TERMINAL ILLNESS IN AN INDIAN SETTING: PROBLEMS OF COMMUNICATION
title_fullStr TERMINAL ILLNESS IN AN INDIAN SETTING: PROBLEMS OF COMMUNICATION
title_full_unstemmed TERMINAL ILLNESS IN AN INDIAN SETTING: PROBLEMS OF COMMUNICATION
title_short TERMINAL ILLNESS IN AN INDIAN SETTING: PROBLEMS OF COMMUNICATION
title_sort terminal illness in an indian setting: problems of communication
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3010602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927320
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