TY  - JOUR
AU  - Huang, Boyan
AU  - Chen, Huiping
AU  - Deng, Yaotiao
AU  - Yi, Tingwu
AU  - Wang, Yuqing
AU  - Jiang, Yu
PY  - 2016
TI  - Diagnosis, disease stage, and distress of Chinese cancer patients
JF  - Annals of Translational Medicine; Vol 4, No 4 (February 29, 2016): Annals of Translational Medicine
Y2  - 2016
KW  - 
N2  - Background: The objective is to assess how cancer patients know about their diagnosis what they know about their real stage, and the relationship between cancer stage and psychological distress.  Methods: A questionnaire including the Distress Thermometer was delivered to 422 cancer inpatients. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to estimate odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI).  Results: Most of patients (68.7%) knew the bad news immediately after diagnosis. Half of patients knew their diagnosis directly from medical reports. Nearly one third of patients were informed by doctors. Cancer stages, which patients believed, differed significantly from their real disease stages (P
UR  - https://atm.amegroups.org/article/view/9341