Tailoring the amount of treatment information to cancer patients' and survivors' preferences: Effects on patient-reported outcomes.

Objectives: Tailoring medical information to cancer patients' needs is recommended, but there is little guidance on how to tailor, and limited research exists about its effects. Tailoring to the amount of preferred information may be easily implementable in clinic and is tested here.

Methods: A video-vignette experiment was used to systematically vary video patients' information preferences (limited/extensive) and amount of provided information (additional/no additional).

Provider caring and structuring treatment information to improve cancer patients' recall: Does it help?

Objectives: Patient recall of medical information is usually poor. Healthcare providers can employ affect-oriented (i.e.

Use of implicit persuasion in decision making about adjuvant cancer treatment: A potential barrier to shared decision making.

Background: Shared decision making (SDM) is widely advocated, especially for preference-sensitive decisions like those on adjuvant treatment for early-stage cancer. Here, decision making involves a subjective trade-off between benefits and side-effects, and therefore, patients' informed preferences should be taken into account. If clinicians consciously or unconsciously steer patients towards the option they think is in their patients' best interest (i.

Investigating the Potential Contribution of Patient Rating Sites to Hospital Supervision: Exploratory Results From an Interview Study in the Netherlands.

Background: Over the last decades, the patient perspective on health care quality has been unconditionally integrated into quality management. For several years now, patient rating sites have been rapidly gaining attention. These offer a new approach toward hearing the patient's perspective on the quality of health care.

Trends in patient satisfaction in Dutch university medical centers: room for improvement for all.

Background: Results of patient satisfaction research provide hospitals areas for quality improvement. Although it may take several years to achieve such improvement, not all hospitals analyze changes in patient satisfaction over time structurally. Consequently, they lack information from patients' perspective on effectiveness of improvement programs.

Physical activity and survival of postmenopausal, hormone receptor-positive breast cancer patients: results of the Tamoxifen Exemestane Adjuvant Multicenter Lifestyle study.

Background: Physical activity has been related to improved breast cancer outcomes. Especially in the older breast cancer population, physical activity may be important because old age is associated with comorbidities and decreased physical function. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between physical activity and overall survival, breast cancer-specific survival, and recurrence in several age groups of postmenopausal breast cancer patients.

The psychophysiology of medical communication. Linking two worlds of research.

Objective: Medical communication is goal oriented behavior. As such, it can be modeled as a chain of decisions, resulting from cognitive and emotional processes each potentially associated with psychophysiological reactions. Psychophysiological may be helpful to detect small changes in affect or arousal in the course of a consultation that would be difficult to detect by other evaluations of the process, like self-reports.

Assessing inpatients' satisfaction with hospital care: should we prefer evaluation or satisfaction ratings?

Inpatients' satisfaction with hospital care is often assessed by questionnaire. From a psychometrical standpoint, this method has drawbacks, however. We further investigated which item response format would maximise desirable outcomes regarding characteristics of the sample obtained (response rate and representativeness) and psychometric properties of the instrument (e.