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ArticleEuropean journal of cancer care2018

Developing an aftercare decision aid; assessing health professionals' and patients' preferences.

Linda Klaassen, Carmen Dirksen, Liesbeth Boersma, Ciska Hoving, of the B-beslist!-group

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Article in European journal of cancer care, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. The effectiveness of personalised surveillance and aftercare in breast cancer follow-up: a systematic review.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2024
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  6. Systematic Development of Patient Decision Aids: An Update from the IPDAS Collaboration.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Linda KlaassenDepartment of Health Promotion/CAPHRI Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2307-7353
Carmen DirksenDepartment of KEMTA/CAPHRI Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Liesbeth BoersmaDepartment of Radiation oncology (MAASTRO Clinic)/GROW School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Ciska HovingDepartment of Health Promotion/CAPHRI Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Personalising aftercare for curatively treated breast cancer patients is expected to improve patient satisfaction with care. A patient decision aid can support women in making decisions about their aftercare trajectory, but is currently not available. The aim of this study was to assess the needs of patients and health professionals with regard to an aftercare decision aid to systematically develop such a decision aid. Focus groups with patients and individual interviews with health professionals were digitally recorded and coded using the Framework analysis. Although most patients felt few aftercare options were available to them, health professionals reported to provide various options on the patients' request. Patients reported difficulty in expressing their need for options to their health professional. Although most patients were unfamiliar with decision aids, the majority preferred a paper-based patient decision aid, while most health professionals preferred an online tool. The practical implications for the intended patient decision aid are: that a digital tool with paper-based element should be developed, the patient decision aid should facilitate both rational and intuitive processes and should provide insight in patients' preferences concerning aftercare to discuss these explicitly.

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AftercareAttitude of Health PersonnelDecision Support TechniquesPatient PreferenceAdultAgedBreast NeoplasmsDecision MakingFemaleFocus GroupsHealth Services Needs and DemandHumansMaleMiddle Agedaftercarebreast cancerdecisional processeshealth care professionalspatient decision aidpatients

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PMID28727259
PMCPMC5900871

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