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Patients' preferences for involvement in treatment decision making in Japan

Miho Sekimoto1 email, Atsushi Asai2 email, Motoki Ohnishi3 email, Etsuyo Nishigaki4 email, Tsuguya Fukui3 email, Takuro Shimbo3 email and Yuichi Imanaka1 email

Department of Healthcare Economics and Quality Management, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Department of Bioethics, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Department of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Department of Social Psychology, Wakayama Medical College, Wakayama, Japan

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BMC Family Practice 2004, 5:1doi:10.1186/1471-2296-5-1

Published: 1 March 2004

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Table 1 – Demographic Characteristics of Respondents (n = 133). Table 2 – Questionnaire responses for the three vignette groups. Table 3 – Relationship of patient's preferred role to desire for various types of information. Table 4 – Association of patient's preferred role to choice of final decision-maker

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