Is respecting patients associated with more patient-centered communication behaviors in clinical encounters?
Respect is associated with positive and patient-centered communication behaviors during encounters.
Although an increasing proportion of elderly patients with colon cancer are treated with adjuvant chemotherapy, many elderly patients still do not receive this treatment. As expected, receipt of adjuvant treatment decreased in the presence of comorbidity, but the clinical rationale for undertreatment of women and patients with low socioeconomic status is not clear.