Titre : | Truth telling in the case of a pessimistic diagnosis in Japan. (1999) |
Auteurs : | A. AKABAYASHI ; I. KAI ; H. OKAZAKI ; H. TAKEMURA ; Department of Public Health and Occupational Medicine. Graduate School of Medicine. University of Tokyo. Tokyo. JPN ; School of Health Sciences and Nursing. Tokyo. JPN |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Lancet (The) (vol. 354, n° 9186, 1999) |
Pagination : | 1263- |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Cancer ; Pronostic ; Relation médecin malade ; Médecin ; Consentement soins ; Ethique ; Homme ; Japon ; Asie |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST dR0xIlu8. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. We investigated how physicians in Japan convey a poor prognosis of advanced cancer. Physicians tended to give patients optimistic accounts of theur prognosis, while they were incilned to give the families pessimistic accounts. |