Quality versus quantity in end-of-life choices of cancer patients and support persons: a discrete choice experiment.

Amy E WallerRob Sanson-FisherScott D BrownLaura WallJustin Walsh

Published in: Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (2018)

Patients and SPs place significant value on avoiding severe pain when making end-of-life choices, over and above level of consciousness or life extension. People's views about end-of-life scenarios they most as well as least prefer should be sought.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
chronic pain
climate change
prognostic factors
peritoneal dialysis
pain management
neuropathic pain
early onset
spinal cord injury
quality improvement