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Gonzalez S, Guedj E, Fanti S, Lalumera E, Le Coz P, Taïeb D. Delivering PET imaging results to cancer patients: steps for handling ethical issues. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2018; 45:2240-2241. [PMID: 30109400 DOI: 10.1007/s00259-018-4124-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2018] [Accepted: 08/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Sandra Gonzalez
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, Timone University Hospital, Marseille, France.
- CERIMED, Aix-Marseille Université, 264, rue Saint-Pierre, 13385, Marseille, France.
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, Timone University Hospital, Marseille, France
- CERIMED, Aix-Marseille Université, 264, rue Saint-Pierre, 13385, Marseille, France
- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Ecole Centrale Marseille, UMR 7249, Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France
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- Medicina Nucleare, Policlinico S. Orsola, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Psychology Department & Philosophy of Health and Disease Research Center, Milano-Bicocca University, Milan, Italy
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- UMR 7268 ADéS, Espace Ethique Méditerranéen, Timone University Hospital, Aix-Marseille University-EFS-CNRS, 13385, Marseille, France
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, Timone University Hospital, Marseille, France.
- CERIMED, Aix-Marseille Université, 264, rue Saint-Pierre, 13385, Marseille, France.
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Tondeur M, Ham H. [Transmission of examination results to patients: opinion of referring physicians and patients]. Acta Clin Belg 2002; 57:129-33. [PMID: 12212353 DOI: 10.1179/acb.2002.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
Abstract
Patients frequently ask the nuclear medicine physician or the radiologist for conclusions at completion of a diagnostic procedure. The present study tried to assess opinions from both patients and referring physicians. Answers from both parties were grossly discordant: most of the referring physicians thought patients should not be given results of a diagnostic procedure by the nuclearist or radiologist an approach most of the patients disagreed with. Deontological guidelines of the official Belgian association do not authorize nuclear medicine physicians nor radiologists to give the patients any result directly; according to our data, this rule should be adapted.
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- M Tondeur
- CHU Saint Pierre Service des Radioisotopes Rue Haute 290, 1000 Bruxelles
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