Clinician and cancer patient views on patient participation in treatment decision-making: a quantitative and qualitative exploration.
Patient participation in treatment decision-making is being increasingly advocated, although cancer treatments are often guideline-driven. Trade-offs between benefits and side effects underlying guidelines are made by clinicians. Evidence suggests that clinicians are inaccurate at predicting patient values. The aim was to assess what role oncologists and cancer patients prefer in deciding about treatment, and how they view patient participation in treatment decision-making. Seventy disease-free cancer patients and 60 oncologists (surgical, radiation, and medical) were interviewed about their role preferences using the Control Preferences Scale (CPS) and about their views on patient participation using closed- and open-ended questions. Almost all participants preferred treatment decisions to be the outcome of a shared process. Clinicians viewed participation more often as reaching an agreement, whereas 23% of patients defined participation exclusively as being informed. Of the participants, > or = 81% thought not all patients are able to participate and > or = 74% thought clinicians are not always able to weigh the pros and cons of treatment for patients, especially not quality as compared with length of life. Clinicians seemed reluctant to share probability information on the likely impact of adjuvant treatment. Clinicians should acknowledge the legitimacy of patients' values in treatment decisions. Guidelines should recommend elicitation of patient values at specific decision points.
Pieterse
A H
AH
Department of Medical Decision Making, University Medical Center Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands. a.h.pieterse@lumc.nl
Baas-Thijssen
M C M
MC
Marijnen
C A M
CA
Stiggelbout
A M
AM
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003657:Decision Making; D019468:Disease Management; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008495:Medical Oncology; D008875:Middle Aged; D015337:Multicenter Studies as Topic; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D010358:Patient Participation; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations
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