Is shared decision-making vanishing at the end-of-life? A descriptive and qualitative study of advanced cancer patients’ involvement in specific therapies decision-making

Abstract

This study indicate to what extent these difficult decisions are related to physicians' and patients' respective and mutually influenced abilities to deal with and share about uncertainties and limits, throughout the disease trajectory. These insights may help physicians, patients and policy makers to enrich their understanding of underestimated and sensitive key issues of the decision-making process.