Experience, decision-making and information needs around parenteral nutrition among people with advanced cancer, and their carers: A scoping review.

Research is required to explore the information that patients with advanced cancer, and their carers, need to facilitate their decision-making around commencing and discontinuing parenteral nutrition. We recommend the development of processes for obtaining written informed consent from patients commencing parenteral nutrition to ensure that core topics are discussed on initiation, enabling patients and carers to make informed decisions. Additionally, we recommend development of a national framework to inform patients and carers of the whole discharge process on PN from decision-making to discontinuing PN.