A patient's perspective on care decisions: a qualitative interview study.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Discussing treatment wishes and limitations during medical consultations aims to enable patients to define goals and preferences for future care. Patients and physicians, however, face multiple barriers, resulting in postponing or avoiding the conversation. The aim of this study was to explore an internal medicine outpatient clinic population's perception on (discussing) treatment wishes and limitations.

Methods

Semi-structured interviews were conducted in two rounds with 44 internal medicine outpatient clinic patients at the University Medical Centre Utrecht, a tertiary care teaching medical centre in the Netherlands. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and thematically analysed with a phenomenological approach and inductive, data-driven coding.

SUBMITTER: Briede S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10693144 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature