ArticleOncotarget2017
Crossing the perspectives of patients, families, and physicians on cancer treatment: A qualitative study.
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- Operationalizing patient-centered cancer care: A systematic review and synthesis of the qualitative literature on cancer patients' needs, values, and preferences.Psycho-oncology · 2020Pooled it
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- Patient, Caregiver, and Clinician Perspectives on Core Components of Therapeutic Alliance for Adolescents and Young Adults With Advanced Cancer: A Qualitative Study.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Facilitators and Challenges in Patient's Satisfaction with Quality of Cervical Cancer Care in a Tertiary Care Hospital, Puducherry, India: A Qualitative Study.South Asian journal of cancer · 2023Article
- CT-derived body composition analysis could possibly replace DXA and BIA to monitor NET-patients.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- A specific method for qualitative medical research: the IPSE (Inductive Process to analyze the Structure of lived Experience) approach.BMC medical research methodology · 2020Article
- Exploratory Factor Analysis of a Patient-Centered Cancer Care Measure to Support Improved Assessment of Patients' Experiences.Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research · 2020Article
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Abstract
purposePatients, family members, and physicians participate in cancer care, but their perspectives about what is helpful during cancer treatment have rarely been compared. The aim of this study was to compare these three perspectives.
methodsMulticenter qualitative study (with previously published protocol) based on 90 semi-structured interviews. Participants (purposively selected until data saturation) came from three different subsamples: (i) patients with cancer (n=30), (ii) their relatives (n=30), and (iii) their referring physicians (n=10, interviewed more than once).
resultsOur analysis found 3 main axes (perceived positive effects of cancer treatment, perceived negative effects of cancer treatment, doctor-physician relationship), each composed of 2 main themes. The findings showed that patients, families, and physicians shared the long-term objective of increasing survival (while reducing side effects). However, patients and relatives also pointed out the importance of living with cancer each day and thus of factors helping them to live as well as possible in daily life. The physicians' difficulty in coping with patients' suffering may limit their access to elements that can improve patients' capacity to live as well as possible.
conclusionsDuring cancer treatment (and not only at the end of life), attention should be given to enhancing the capacity of patients to live as well as possible (not only as long as possible) to meet the goals of patient-centered care and satisfy this important need of patients and families.
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