Most models of patient-physician communication take decision-making as a central concept.
However, we found that often the treatment course of metastatic cancer patients is not easy …

Patient participation in treatment decision-making is being increasingly advocated, although
cancer treatments are often guideline-driven. Trade-offs between benefits and side effects …

Background Palliative systematic treatment offers uncertain and often limited benefits, and
the burden can be high. Hence, treatment decisions require shared decision making (SDM) …

Assisting patients and their families in complex decision making is a foundational skill in
palliative care; however, palliative care clinicians and scientists have just begun to establish …

Background Conversations about end-of-life care remain challenging for health care
providers. The tendency to delay conversations about care options represents a barrier that …

PURPOSE: When deliberating palliative cancer treatment, insight into patients' attitudes
toward striving for quality of life (QL) and length of life (LL) may facilitate goal-concordant …

Objective Patients with advanced serious illness face many complex decisions. Patient
decision aids (Pt DA s) can help with complex decision making but are underutilized. This …

The aim of this study was to evaluate the extent to which hospitalised patients with advanced
cancer and a palliative treatment goal wanted to be involved in the process of making …

Third, palliative care practice and research has the unfortunate tendency to overlook
patients with less predictable trajectories of terminal decline and that is equally the case for …

Although recognized as best practice, regular integration of shared decision-making (SDM)
approaches between patients and oncologists remains an elusive goal. It is clear that …