title: Patients' perceptions concerning choice among renal replacement therapies: a pilot study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purposes of this pilot study were to determine which replacement therapy group would be most appropriate for exploring the concept of choice and to refine the research question.
  
  
  METHODS
  This exploratory, descriptive study used a phenomenological method.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Four themes were derived: (1) uncertainty of long-term health, (2) lack of choice, (3) no memory of making a choice, and (4) lack of information about renal replacement therapies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  No participant remembered actually making a choice regarding their renal replacement therapies.
authors.affiliation: University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Kandacej
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Landreneau
authors.forename: Peggy
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ward-Smith
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D004496:Education, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D017582:Renal Replacement Therapy