Abstract
Background:
Patients with advanced cancer often have to make difficult decisions, such as how much to spend on moderately life-extending treatments. This and other end-of-life decisions are also influenced by their informal caregivers. Understanding the relative value that patients and their caregivers place on various aspects of end-of-life care can help clinicians tailor treatments to best meet the preferences of their patients.
Aim:
To quantify willingness to pay of patients with advanced cancer and their caregivers to extend the patients’ life by 1 year and to compare this result to their willingness to pay for other end-of-life improvements.
Design:
Cross-sectional survey using a discrete choice experiment.
Participants:
A total of 211 patients with stage IV cancer and their informal caregivers.
Patients with advanced cancer often have to make difficult decisions, such as how much to spend on moderately life-extending treatments. This and other end-of-life decisions are also influenced by their informal caregivers. Understanding the relative value that patients and their caregivers place on various aspects of end-of-life care can help clinicians tailor treatments to best meet the preferences of their patients.
Aim:
To quantify willingness to pay of patients with advanced cancer and their caregivers to extend the patients’ life by 1 year and to compare this result to their willingness to pay for other end-of-life improvements.
Design:
Cross-sectional survey using a discrete choice experiment.
Participants:
A total of 211 patients with stage IV cancer and their informal caregivers.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 842 - 850 |
| Journal | Palliative Medicine |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 9 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2015 |