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Medical Decision-Making Incapacity among Newly Diagnosed Older Patients with Hematological Malignancy Receiving First Line Chemotherapy: A Cross-Sectional Study of Patients and Physicians

BACKGROUND: Decision-making capacity to provide informed consent regarding treatment is essential among cancer patients. The purpose of this study was to identify the frequency of decision-making incapacity among newly diagnosed older patients with hematological malignancy receiving first-line chemo...

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Autores principales: Sugano, Koji, Okuyama, Toru, Iida, Shinsuke, Komatsu, Hirokazu, Ishida, Takashi, Kusumoto, Shigeru, Uchida, Megumi, Nakaguchi, Tomohiro, Kubota, Yosuke, Ito, Yoshinori, Takahashi, Kazuhisa, Akechi, Tatsuo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4546640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26296202
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136163