TY - JOUR
T1 - Choosing health, choosing treatment
T2 - patient choice after diagnosis of localized prostate cancer
AU - Branney, Peter
AU - White, Alan
AU - Jain, Sunjay
AU - Hiley, Chris
AU - Flowers, Paul
PY - 2009/11/1
Y1 - 2009/11/1
N2 - Patient choice is nothing new, but it is a motif that is increasingly mobilized by politicians, policy-makers, and health service providers across much of the Western world. Despite its global resonance, we want to make the case for considering the complexity of the contexts in which patient choice is offered. In this report, we consider research in relationship to the domain of localized prostate cancer in the United Kingdom, specifically to choosing treatment after the first diagnosis. Before making some recommendations for research, the U.K. context is elaborated through a consideration of health policy, which is then related to the changes in a specific service (the Yorkshire Cancer Centre) and research on patients' experiences of treatment.
AB - Patient choice is nothing new, but it is a motif that is increasingly mobilized by politicians, policy-makers, and health service providers across much of the Western world. Despite its global resonance, we want to make the case for considering the complexity of the contexts in which patient choice is offered. In this report, we consider research in relationship to the domain of localized prostate cancer in the United Kingdom, specifically to choosing treatment after the first diagnosis. Before making some recommendations for research, the U.K. context is elaborated through a consideration of health policy, which is then related to the changes in a specific service (the Yorkshire Cancer Centre) and research on patients' experiences of treatment.
KW - localised prostate cancer
KW - patient choice
KW - treatment decisions
KW - health policy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70350495799&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.urology.2009.03.015
DO - 10.1016/j.urology.2009.03.015
M3 - Article
C2 - 19883806
AN - SCOPUS:70350495799
SN - 0090-4295
VL - 74
SP - 968
EP - 971
JO - Urology
JF - Urology
IS - 5
ER -