Using value-focused thinking to elicit oncologic inpatients' life and treatment objectives: a qualitative interview study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Value-focused thinking (VFT) is a decision-making method that places the qualitative elicitation of decisionmakers' objectives at the beginning of the decision-making process. A potential healthcare application of VFT is to elicit patients' objectives to better understand what matters to them. Only then can treatments be tailored accordingly. This is particularly important for patients with life-threatening diseases such as cancer. Thus, this interview study used VFT to elicit the life and treatment objectives of non-terminal oncologic inpatients.

Methods

Fifteen cancer inpatients (median age 66 years) were sampled in a German university hospital in September 2019. The participants completed questionnaires, the data of which were used to semi-structure the subseque

SUBMITTER: Fenkart L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11295223 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature