The behaviors of seeking a second opinion from other health-care professionals and the utilization of complementary and alternative medicine in gynecologic cancer patients

Tam, Kwok-kan; Cheng, Dunlei; Ng, TY; Ngan, Hextan Y.S.

doi:10.1007/s00520-005-0841-4

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“…After searching through these results, a total of 12 full length papers in English (Gruenigen et al, 2001;Powell et al, 2002;Swisher et al, 2002;Navo et al, 2004;Tam et al, 2005;Molassiotis et al, 2006;Fascing et al, 2007;Akyuz et al, 2007;Finnane et al, 2011;Andersen et al, 2012;Arye et al, 2012;Arye-Ben et al, 2014). Studies which are fulfilling the criteria for this review through such studies obtained from the databased are shown in Figure 1.…”

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Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Patients with Gynecologic Cancer: a Systematic Review

Akpunar¹,

Bebiş²,

Yavan³

2015

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Patients with Gynecologic Cancer: a Systematic Review

Akpunar¹,

Bebiş²,

Yavan³

2015

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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“…The "Second medical opinion Network" is an innovative tool for patients to actively seek information and be involved in their therapeutic treatment. The demand for such active involvement in medical decisions progressively increased over the years [42,64]. Several studies suggest that about 68% of patients seek a second opinion, so that would get another diagnosis or prognosis, and 65% would assurance regarding the diagnosis or treatment options [44,47,[65][66][67].…”

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“…This fear may lead patients to avoid discussing the topic with their physician, misleading the physician-patient relationship in the long term; 2) A potential conflict when discrepancies exist between the first and second opinion [49,64].…”

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The “Second Opinion Medical Network”

Palmieri¹

2017

Int J Pathol Clin Res

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The "Second Opinion Medical Network" is a consultation referral web and medical office system recruiting a wide panel of real-time available specialists, to whom any patient affected by any disease or syndrome and not satisfied with the diagnosis or therapy can apply for an individual clinical audit. Due to the physician-patient communication gap, most of the patients usually wander around the medical websites looking for proper answers to their health problems. However, this search often becomes compulsive and obsessive and frequently ambiguous and frustrating. Palmieri, et al. defines this borderline or even pathological behavior as the "Web Babel Syndrome"-psychological imbalance affecting young and elderly patients, often with multiple synchronous diseases receiving by their care givers heterogeneous and misleading informations or advices, as well as, confused, contradictory statements and prescriptions. To deal with this problem, the "Second Opinion Medical Network" aims to be a useful "problem-solving" support revisiting each conflictual diagnostic and therapeutic step and properly re-addressing tailored treatments and prognoses, preventing unnecessary investigations and unhelpful and expensive medical and surgical interventions.The aim of this editorial is to describe the role and benefits of such a medical network in our web connected health care system. KeywordsSecond opinion, Network, Surgery, Cancer, EconomyIn 2002, a survey of 4,530 people in Europe and USA showed that 32% of Europeans and 43% of Americans preferred to use health web sites, sponsored by BBC and Yahoo, for health information [3]. However, the internet sites are often lacking of adequate information concerning disease complications and aftercare [4]. This web-searching behaviour is often continuous, compulsory, somehow obsessive, leading to the "Web Babel Syndrome", defined as a physician-patient communication gap frequently occurring when the patient affected by multiple synchronous pathologies, feeds back heterogeneous and misleading informations and prescriptions with the risk to drop in a confusionary state [5][6][7][8].In 1999, the Institute of Medicine report cited fatal medical errors in some 40,000-98,000 Americans PER year [8] supporting once more the concept that a further consultation or specialistic second opinion may be useful antidote to lethal misdiagnosis [9].The term "second opinion" has been widely reported also in histology [10,11] and pathology (e.g. thyroid pathology) [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] where the diagnosis is often difficult, misunderstood and strongly based on the healthcare professionals' experience. It has been defined as a qualified, interdisciplinary medical opinion, based on medical evidence, of an experienced medical specialist or a team [21]. An effective and helpful second opinion strategy in various pathologies (e.g. oral pathology) is the use of smartphones and software applications, such as WhatsApp Messenger, a crossplatform mobile messaging application that allows the exchang...

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“…22 A survey from 2006 of 1,984 US breast cancer patients found that about 20% of them sought a SO. 25 Much higher rates were found in Hong Kong (41.9%), 16 Japan (40.6%), 18 and Israel (45%), 26 but only 6.5% in Australia. 13 Moreover, to the best of our knowledge, all studies that evaluated SO utilization were based on patient self-reported surveys which inherently rely on the patient's subjective interpretation of what is a SO.…”

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“…[14][15][16] In many cases, patients seek a SO simply because they hope that the diagnosis would turn out to be wrong, 4,17 are anxious about their condition, 4,18 or find it difficult to emotionally deal with the diagnosis. 11,12 Patients also seek a SO when they are dissatisfied with an impersonal communication or feel that their physician had not spent enough time with them, feel they did not get the information they need, or lack trust in the physician.…”

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Second Medical Opinion: Utilization Rates And Characteristics of Seekers In A General Population

Shmueli

Pliskin

et al. 2016

Value in Health

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The behaviors of seeking a second opinion from other health-care professionals and the utilization of complementary and alternative medicine in gynecologic cancer patients

Abstract: Seeking a second opinion from other HCP is common in gynecologic cancer patients. Patients who seek a second opinion are more likely to utilize CAM.

Cited by 29 publications

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Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Patients with Gynecologic Cancer: a Systematic Review

Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Patients with Gynecologic Cancer: a Systematic Review

The “Second Opinion Medical Network”

Second Medical Opinion: Utilization Rates And Characteristics of Seekers In A General Population

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