2013
DOI: 10.1017/s1460396913000460
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Shared decision making in palliative cancer care: a literature review

Abstract: Background: Patients require information to make informed decisions and consent to medical treatment. Shared decision making (SDM) is a methodology that promotes a patient-centred approach to informed consent and demonstrates respect for autonomy Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to critically review the legal and ethical issues relevant to Canadian and UK informed consent and SDM practices and how these processes relate to current palliative care practices, with a particular emphasis on radiation therapy.… Show more

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“…Based on the results, palliative care patients depend on the recommendations of the healthcare professionals. Patients' dependence on physicians' recommendations has been identified also in previous reviews (Feuz, 2014;Gaston & Mitchell, 2005) and studies (Seibel et al, 2014). Healthcare professionals should not, however, use their authority to override patient's preferences.…”
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“…Based on the results, palliative care patients depend on the recommendations of the healthcare professionals. Patients' dependence on physicians' recommendations has been identified also in previous reviews (Feuz, 2014;Gaston & Mitchell, 2005) and studies (Seibel et al, 2014). Healthcare professionals should not, however, use their authority to override patient's preferences.…”
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“…• Patient participation in shared decision-making has numerous prerequisites and the main responsibility for enabling patient participation lies with the healthcare professionals and the organisations providing palliative care. Feuz, 2014;Gaston & Mitchell, 2005). In Gaston and Mitchell's (2005) review from 2005, the aim was to identify studies that tested ways of improving patient participation in decisionmaking and giving information to patients with advanced terminal cancer.…”
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“…Whilst the challenges of counselling and decisionmaking have been well-described in the context of palliative treatment [11,24,40], there is a dearth of literature specifically related to the issues around genetic assessment (with or without genetic testing/DNA storage) of palliative oncology patients.…”
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