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. 2018 Aug;10(8):5123-5130.
doi: 10.21037/jtd.2018.07.117.

Esophageal cancer patients' information management: cross-cultural differences between Dutch and Italian patients in perceived quality of provided oncological information

Luca M Saadeh  1 , Annelijn E Slaman  2 , Eleonora Pinto  1 , Suzanne S Gisbertz  2 , Francesco Cavallin  1 , Egle Jezerskyte  2 , Rita Alfieri  1 , Loes Noteboom  2 , Maria Cristina Bellissimo  1 , Matteo Cagol  1 , Giovanni Pirozzolo  1 , Carlo Castoro  3 , Marco Scarpa  1 , Mark I van Berge Henegouwen  2
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Esophageal cancer patients' information management: cross-cultural differences between Dutch and Italian patients in perceived quality of provided oncological information

Luca M Saadeh et al. J Thorac Dis. 2018 Aug.
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Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Patient enrollment flow chart. EC, esophageal cancer; IT, Italian patients; NL, Dutch patients.
Figure 2
Figure 2
INFO 25—assessment at diagnosis, adjusted for gender. Dutch patients reported better information about treatments (INFOTREAT), other services (INFOTHSE), things that patients can do to help themselves (INFOHELP), higher satisfaction with information received (INFOSATINFO) and a better global score (GLOBAL SCORE) than Italian patients.
Figure 3
Figure 3
INFO 25—assessment during neoadjuvant therapy, adjusted for gender. Italian patients were more satisfied with information about disease (INFOSATINFO).
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