Preference-sensitive care
Preference-sensitive care comprises treatments that involve significant tradeoffs affecting the patient's quality and/or length of life. Decisions about these interventions -- whether to have them or not, which ones to have -- ought to reflect patients' personal values and preferences, and...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lebanon, NH
Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences
2007-01-15, 2007
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| Series: | Dartmouth Atlas Project topic brief
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| Collection: | National Center for Biotechnology Information - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Preference-sensitive care comprises treatments that involve significant tradeoffs affecting the patient's quality and/or length of life. Decisions about these interventions -- whether to have them or not, which ones to have -- ought to reflect patients' personal values and preferences, and ought to be made only after patients have enough information to make an informed choice. Sometimes, as with the options for treating early stage breast cancer, the scientific evidence on the main outcome -- survival -- is quite good; other times, as with treatment options following prostate cancer, the evidence is much weaker |
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| Physical Description: | 1 PDF file (6 pages) illustrations |