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Examining patients' preferences for participation in clinical decision‐making: the experience in a Latin American chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cancer outpatient population

It is generally accepted that patients prefer to be told the truth by their physicians; however, the practice of partial truth‐telling is frequent with an existing ‘norm of nondisclosure.’ Our primary objective was to determine what patients wanted to be told about their illness, and whether there might be differences between patients with either cancer or advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). A second objective was to determine how these patients envisioned their participation, or lack thereof, in the treatment decision‐making process.