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What do Patients Want From Their Radiation Oncologist? Initial Results From a Prospective Trial

PURPOSE: To assess patients' initial physician preferences using a newly developed instrument. METHODS AND MATERIALS: A total of 182 patients with a primary diagnosis of prostate, breast, or lung cancer referred for consultation to the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Department of Rad...

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Autores principales: Bhatnagar, Ajay K., Land, Stephanie R., Shogan, Alyson, Rodgers, Edwin E., Heron, Dwight E., Flickinger, John C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7115778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17904304
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.05.086
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author Bhatnagar, Ajay K.
Land, Stephanie R.
Shogan, Alyson
Rodgers, Edwin E.
Heron, Dwight E.
Flickinger, John C.
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description PURPOSE: To assess patients' initial physician preferences using a newly developed instrument. METHODS AND MATERIALS: A total of 182 patients with a primary diagnosis of prostate, breast, or lung cancer referred for consultation to the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Department of Radiation Oncology enrolled in our institutional review board–approved protocol. All patients completed patient preference instrument surveys before meeting their radiation oncologist. Survey responses to 10 statements were categorized into three groups (agree, neutral, or disagree), and the association of survey responses by cancer site was tested with chi-squared tests. RESULTS: Ninety-nine percent of all patients preferred to be addressed by their first name in encounters with their radiation oncologist. There were significant associations of Item 3 (hand holding) with gender (p = 0.039) and education (p = 0.028). The responses to Item 5, a statement that patients would feel uncomfortable if the radiation oncologist offered to hug them at the end of treatment, was significantly associated with disease site (p < 0.0001). Further analysis was performed for Item 5 and revealed that the male lung cancer patients had a much higher rate of disagreement with Item 5 compared with prostate cancer patients (37% vs. 18%). CONCLUSIONS: Results of this study may afford greater insight and foster better understanding of what patients want from their radiation oncologist. For breast, lung, and prostate cancer patients, initial preferences for their radiation oncologist are generally similar, according to this tool. However, there are important difference among cancer sites (and gender) regarding physical contact at the end of treatment.
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spelling pubmed-71157782020-04-02 What do Patients Want From Their Radiation Oncologist? Initial Results From a Prospective Trial Bhatnagar, Ajay K. Land, Stephanie R. Shogan, Alyson Rodgers, Edwin E. Heron, Dwight E. Flickinger, John C. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys Clinical Investigation PURPOSE: To assess patients' initial physician preferences using a newly developed instrument. METHODS AND MATERIALS: A total of 182 patients with a primary diagnosis of prostate, breast, or lung cancer referred for consultation to the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Department of Radiation Oncology enrolled in our institutional review board–approved protocol. All patients completed patient preference instrument surveys before meeting their radiation oncologist. Survey responses to 10 statements were categorized into three groups (agree, neutral, or disagree), and the association of survey responses by cancer site was tested with chi-squared tests. RESULTS: Ninety-nine percent of all patients preferred to be addressed by their first name in encounters with their radiation oncologist. There were significant associations of Item 3 (hand holding) with gender (p = 0.039) and education (p = 0.028). The responses to Item 5, a statement that patients would feel uncomfortable if the radiation oncologist offered to hug them at the end of treatment, was significantly associated with disease site (p < 0.0001). Further analysis was performed for Item 5 and revealed that the male lung cancer patients had a much higher rate of disagreement with Item 5 compared with prostate cancer patients (37% vs. 18%). CONCLUSIONS: Results of this study may afford greater insight and foster better understanding of what patients want from their radiation oncologist. For breast, lung, and prostate cancer patients, initial preferences for their radiation oncologist are generally similar, according to this tool. However, there are important difference among cancer sites (and gender) regarding physical contact at the end of treatment. Elsevier Inc. 2007-12-01 2007-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7115778/ /pubmed/17904304 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.05.086 Text en Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Rodgers, Edwin E.
Heron, Dwight E.
Flickinger, John C.
What do Patients Want From Their Radiation Oncologist? Initial Results From a Prospective Trial
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title_short What do Patients Want From Their Radiation Oncologist? Initial Results From a Prospective Trial
title_sort what do patients want from their radiation oncologist? initial results from a prospective trial
topic Clinical Investigation
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7115778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17904304
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