A new study shows that patients can experience reduced co-determination and insufficient information about their cancer treatment, while doctors face pressure to give treatment they do not consider useful.
Shared decision-making is the norm in the patient's healthcare service but may be difficult to accomplish. A new study in Norway has investigated what needs and challenges patients with advanced lung cancer, their relatives, nurses, and doctors experience when deciding on a treatment plan.
Margrethe Aase Schaufel, associate professor at the University of Bergen and senior author of the article "Although patients could be satisfied with the follow-up and treatment recommended by the doctor, information was also given about situations where they had not understood that they could refrain from life-prolonging treatment which resulted in a significantly reduced quality of life", Schaufel says.
Related Stories"The doctors expressed a need for tools that provide more reliable knowledge about treatment tolerance and effect for the individual patient", says Schaufel.
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