Family involvement in advance care planning for people living with advanced cancer: A systematic mixed-methods review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Advance care planning is important for people with advanced cancer. Family involvement in advance care planning may be instrumental to achieving goal-concordant care since they frequently become surrogate decision-makers.

Aim

To examine components, contexts, effects and linkages with intended outcomes of involving family members in advance care planning.

Design

A mixed-methods systematic review, in which quantitative and qualitative data were extracted and synthesised using thematic synthesis leading to a logic model. Prospectively registered on PROSPERO (CRD42020208143).

Data sources

Primary quantitative and qualitative research regarding family-involved advance care planning for people with advanced cancer were identified using Medline, Embase, Psy

SUBMITTER: Kishino M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8972955 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature