Tolerance of uncertainty: A systematic review of health and healthcare-related outcomes

Uncertainty is an important problem in medicine, pervading nearly every activity of healthcare, from health promotion and disease prevention, to disease treatment, to palliative and end-of-life. In all of these activities uncertainty of one type or another —e.g., diagnostic, prognostic, therapeutic—arises in the minds of patients, clinicians, and trainees, and influences their thoughts, feelings, and actions [1]. Responding to these uncertainties in an adaptive way is one of the most important challenges faced by each of these parties [2,3].

Source: Patient Education and Counseling - April 6, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tania D. Strout, Marij Hillen, Caitlin Gutheil, Eric Anderson, Rebecca Hutchinson, Hannah Ward, Hannah Kay, Gregory J. Mills, Paul K.J. Han Tags: Review article Source Type: research