Parents of healthy children assign lower quality of life measure to scenarios labeled as cancer than to identical scenarios not labeled as cancer

BACKGROUND: While it is commonly understood that a cancer diagnosis evokes feelings of fear, the effect of labeling a child’s illness as “cancer” remains unstudied. We hypothesized that lower health utility scores would be assigned to disease states labeled as cancer compared to identical disease st...

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Autores principales: McElderry, Brenna M., Mueller, Emily L., Garcia, Abigail, Carroll, Aaron E., Bennett Jr, William E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6385384/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30791950
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-019-0280-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6385384/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30791950
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-019-0280-5

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