Decision Coaching for Healthy Women With BRCA1/2 Pathogenic Variants—Findings of the Randomized Controlled EDCP-BRCA

Stephanie Stock1, Anna Isselhard, Arim Shukri

  • 1Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne and Institute for Health Economics and Clinical Epidemiology, Cologne; Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne and Center for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer, University Hospital Cologne; Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne and Institute for Health Economics and Clinical Epidemiology, Cologne; Institute for Public Health and Healthcare Research, University of Bremen; Institute for Human Genetics, University Hospital Heidelberg; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Rechts der Isar Hospital Technical University of Munich; Schumpeter School of Business and Economics, Competence Center for Health Economics and Healthcare Research, University of Wuppertal; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital, Dresden; Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne and Center for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer, University Hospital Cologne; Institute for Health and Healthcare Science, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale); Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne and Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Cologne; Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Robert Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Würzburg.

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