Transformations.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.pec.2017.01.002.
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Abstract
A patient with a serious illness continually refuses, postpones or avoids treatment until a conversation reveals essential contextual factors which change the physician's point of view. Once attended to, the patient also changes her attitude.
Medical subject headings
- Communication
- Decision Making
- Patient Participation
- Physician-Patient Relations
- Treatment Refusal