ArticleMedical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making2025
Population Preferences for Treatment in Life-Limiting Illness: Valuing the Way Time Is Spent at the End of Life.
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- From the hospital to the community: reshaping the palliative care paradigm.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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Abstract
IntroductionSocietal preferences over different health states are used to guide service planning, but there has been little investigation of treatment preferences at the end of life. This study aimed to examine population preferences for active treatment or palliation for cancer patients when life expectancy is limited and the relative importance of time spent in hospital or with functional limitation.MethodsWe used a discrete choice experiment that presented respondents with a series of hypothetical patients who had died, describing their last few months of life. Respondents selected the end-of-life alternative they thought best. Data were collected from 1,502 Australian adults participating in an online survey panel. Latent class analysis was used to identify groups with different preference patterns.ResultsFour preference groups were identified along with an additional group that we termed
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