ArticleCancer2025
Evaluating portal-enabled elicitation of patients' health-related values in solid tumor oncology: A qualitative content analysis.
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- Person-First or Disease-First? Language Choices in Cancer Communication.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Article
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introductionElectronic patient portals are increasingly used to improve care and patient-clinician communication. Portal-elicited health-related values (HRVs) were evaluated as to whether they contain themes similar to those arising from nurse-led in-person discussions.
methodsHRV questionnaires, consisting of seven questions, were sent by portal to patients of five solid tumor clinics from July 2023 to August 2024. Applying a theoretical framework generated from prior analysis of in-person nurse-led discussions with patients about their HRVs, questionnaires were coded via thematic content analysis.
resultsA total of 1556 HRV questionnaires were sent to individual patients. Of 852 unique patients who returned questionnaires with response to at least one question, a random subset of 200 patients' responses (167 gastrointestinal cancers, 33 genitourinary cancers) were analyzed by an interdisciplinary team. Analysis identified five themes consistent with those previously identified from in-person discussions: cancer as threat/disruption; expression of personhood and desire to retain a sense of self; communication with loved ones and the medical team as a tool for maintaining individual agency; connection to others as core to social identity and a source of individual strength; and sources of meaning and fulfillment. Uniquely identified by our analysis of portal responses were elements of financial toxicity and spiritual and existential well-being.
conclusionElicitation of patient values through the electronic portal provides valuable insights into the HRV of patients with solid tumors. The electronic portal captures values comparable to those elicited in in-person discussions, supporting efforts to scale such initiatives while preserving the content of patients' reports as a basis for discussion of their HRVs with clinicians.
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