Background Patients with advanced incurable cancer face difficult decisions about palliative
treatment options towards their end of life. However, they are often not provided with the …

Background: Shared decision-making is a key element of person-centred care and
promoted as the favoured model in preference-sensitive decision-making. Limitations to …

Background Little is known about what is at stake at a subjective level for the oncologists
and the advanced cancer patients when they face the question whether to continue, limit or …

Objective Shared decision making (SDM) for cancer treatment yields positive results.
However, it appears that discussing essential topics for SDM is not fully integrated into …

Objective To construct a model of shared decision making (SDM) about cancer treatment by
conducting an extensive consultation of stakeholders, informed by the literature. Methods …

Background Decision making in the context of palliative care is particularly complex given
the unpredictable illness trajectories experienced by patients and the number of individuals …

Background Patients' preferences and expectations should be taken into account in
treatment decision making in the last phase of life. Shared decision making (SDM) is …

The aim of this study is to synthesize knowledge about the process of shared decision-
making (SDM) in palliative care. Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsychInfo, Web of Science …

Background Decision-making in palliative care usually involves both patients and family
caregivers. However, how concordance and discordance in decision-making manifest and …

Background Weighing risks and benefits is currently the primary criterion for decisions
regarding systemic anticancer treatment (SACT) in far advanced cancer patients, also in the …