‘The Thing is Not Knowing’: Patients' Perspectives on Surveillance of an Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodule

Authors

Renda Soylemez Wiener, Boston University
Michael K. Gould, Kaiser Permanente Southern California
Steven Woloshin, Dartmouth College
Lisa M. Schwartz, Dartmouth College
Jack Clark, VA Hospital

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-2-2015

Publication Title

Health Expectations

Abstract

Background: The hundreds of thousands of patients found to have a potentially malignant pulmonary nodule each year are faced with tremendous uncertainty regarding what the nodule is and how it should be evaluated.

Objective: To explore patients' responses to the detection and evaluation of a pulmonary nodule.

DOI

10.1111/hex.12036

Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation

Wiener, Renda Soylemez; Gould, Michael K.; Woloshin, Steven; Schwartz, Lisa M.; and Clark, Jack, "‘The Thing is Not Knowing’: Patients' Perspectives on Surveillance of an Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodule" (2015). Dartmouth Scholarship. 904.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/904