Patient-centered outcomes for gastrointestinal cancer care: a scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Following a cancer diagnosis, patients and their caregivers face crucial decisions regarding goals of care and treatment, which have consequences that can persist throughout their cancer journey. To foster informed and value-driven treatment choices, evidence-based information on outcomes relevant to patients is needed. Traditionally, clinical studies have largely focused on a few concrete and easily measurable outcomes such as survival, disease progression and immediate treatment toxicities. These outcomes do not capture other important factors that patients consider when making treatment decisions. Patient-centred outcomes (PCOs) reflect the patients' individual values, preferences, needs and circumstances that are essential to directing meaningful and informed healt

SUBMITTER: Yang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9198790 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature