Physician Recommendations Trump Patient Preferences in Prostate Cancer Treatment Decisions

Conclusions. Patients’ treatment decisions were based largely on urologists’ recommendations, which, in turn, were based on medical factors (age and Gleason score) and not on patients’ personal views of the relative pros and cons of treatment alternatives.

Source: Medical Decision Making - November 28, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Scherr, K. A., Fagerlin, A., Hofer, T., Scherer, L. D., Holmes-Rovner, M., Williamson, L. D., Kahn, V. C., Montgomery, J. S., Greene, K. L., Zhang, B., Ubel, P. A. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research