Erschienen in:
01.01.2014 | Healthcare Policy and Outcomes
An Opportunity to Improve Informed Consent and Shared Decision Making: The Role of the ACS NSQIP Surgical Risk Calculator in Oncology
verfasst von:
Jennifer L. Paruch, MD, Clifford Y. Ko, MD, MS, MSHS, Karl Y. Bilimoria, MD, MS
Erschienen in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Ausgabe 1/2014
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Excerpt
Cancer patients are being presented with a growing number of treatment options, many of which involve complex surgical decisions. The informed consent and shared decision-making process provides an increasingly important opportunity for surgeons to provide education, engage patients, make treatment recommendations and tailor perioperative care plans. Patient-specific assessments of operative risk are critical to these conversations. Unfortunately, relatively few resources have been available to help surgeons with these assessments. …