Clinician Experiences in Treatment Decision-Making for Patients with Spinal Metastases: A Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Effective management of metastatic disease requires multidisciplinary input and entails high risk of disease-related and treatment-related morbidity and mortality. The factors that influence clinician decision-making around spinal metastases are not well understood. We conducted a qualitative study that included a multidisciplinary cohort of physicians to evaluate the decision-making process for treatment of spinal metastases from the clinician's perspective.

Methods

We recruited operative and nonoperative clinicians, including orthopaedic spine surgeons, neurosurgeons, radiation oncologists, and physiatrists, from across North America to participate in either a focus group or a semistructured interview. All interviews were audiorecorded and transcribed verbatim.

SUBMITTER: Barton LB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8268460 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature