• Title of article

    Truth telling in the case of a pessimistic diagnosis in Japan Original Research Article

  • Author/Authors

    Hideo Akabayashi، نويسنده , , I Kai، نويسنده , , H Takemura، نويسنده , , H Okazaki، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1999
  • Pages
    1
  • From page
    1263
  • To page
    1263
  • Abstract
    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 inclined to give the families pessimistic accounts.
  • Journal title
    The Lancet
  • Serial Year
    1999
  • Journal title
    The Lancet
  • Record number

    549803