IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/medema/v25y2005i6p614-619.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Cure Me Even If It Kills Me: Preferences for Invasive Cancer Treatment

Author

Listed:
  • Angela Fagerlin

    (VA Health Services Research & Development Center of Excellence, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, fagerlin@med.umich.edu)

  • Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher

    (VA Health Services Research & Development Center of Excellence, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI)

  • Peter A. Ubel

    (VA Health Services Research & Development Center of Excellence, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Abstract

Purpose . When making medical decisions, people often care not only about what happens but also about whether the outcome was a result of actions voluntarily taken or a result of inaction. This study assessed the proportion of people choosing nonoptimal treatments (treatments which reduced survival chances) when presented with hypothetical cancer scenarios which varied by outcome cause. Methods . A randomized survey experiment tested preferences for curing an existent cancer with 2 possible treatments (medication or surgery) and 2 effects of treatment (beneficial or harmful). Participants were 112 prospective jurors in the Philadelphia County Courthouse and 218 visitors to the Detroit-Wayne County Metropolitan Airport. Results . When treatment was beneficial, 27% of participants rejected medication, whereas only 10% rejected surgery with identical outcomes ( 2 = 5.87, P

Suggested Citation

  • Angela Fagerlin & Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher & Peter A. Ubel, 2005. "Cure Me Even If It Kills Me: Preferences for Invasive Cancer Treatment," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 25(6), pages 614-619, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:medema:v:25:y:2005:i:6:p:614-619
    DOI: 10.1177/0272989X05282639
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0272989X05282639
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/0272989X05282639?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Patricio S. Dalton & Sayantan Ghosal, 2011. "Behavioral Decisions and Policy," CESifo Economic Studies, CESifo Group, vol. 57(4), pages 560-580, December.
    2. Galizzi, Matteo M. & Miraldo, Marisa & Stavropoulou, Charitini & van der Pol, Marjon, 2016. "Doctor–patient differences in risk and time preferences: A field experiment," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 50(C), pages 171-182.
    3. Heather P. Lacey & Steven C. Lacey & Prerna Dayal & Caroline Forest & Dana Blasi, 2023. "Context Matters: Emotional Sensitivity to Probabilities and the Bias for Action in Cancer Treatment Decisions," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 43(4), pages 417-429, May.
    4. Duberstein, Paul R. & Hoerger, Michael & Norton, Sally A. & Mohile, Supriya & Dahlberg, Britt & Hyatt, Erica Goldblatt & Epstein, Ronald M. & Wittink, Marsha N., 2023. "The TRIBE model: How socioemotional processes fuel end-of-life treatment in the United States," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 317(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:medema:v:25:y:2005:i:6:p:614-619. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.