Preference-sensitive care / Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, author, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Breast--Cancer.

Breast.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (6 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, 2007.

Summary:

Preference-sensitive care comprises treatments that involve significant tradeoffs affecting the patient's quality and/or length of life. Decisions about these interventions -- whether to have them or not, which ones to have -- ought to reflect patients' personal values and preferences, and ought to be made only after patients have enough information to make an informed choice. Sometimes, as with the options for treating early stage breast cancer, the scientific evidence on the main outcome -- survival -- is quite good; other times, as with treatment options following prostate cancer, the evidence is much weaker.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, viewed April 22, 2023).