Patient and proxy reports regarding the experience of treatment decision-making in cancer care.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Shared decision-making, including the elicitation of patient preferences regarding treatment decisions, is considered part of high-quality cancer care. However, patients may not be able to self-report due to illness, and therefore proxy reports may be used. We sought to determine the difference between proxy and patient reports about patient decisions and preferences among patients who received or were scheduled for chemotherapy using data from a large, population-based survey of patients with incident lung or colorectal cancer.

Methods

Of 3573 patients who received or were scheduled for chemotherapy, 3108 self-reported and 465 had proxies reporting on their behalf about preferred and actual decision roles regarding this treatment. Preferred and actual decision rol

SUBMITTER: Roydhouse JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7722082 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature