Preferences for palliative care services for patients with advanced cancer from the demand-supply perspective: A multicenter discrete choice experiment - PubMed
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- Palliative care preferences were studied from both provider and patient perspectives in China.
- Both groups prioritized quality of life improvements in palliative care services.
- Providers valued shared decision-making, reduced family caregiving burden, integrative care, and lower costs.
- Patients prioritized reduced caregiving burden, Western medicine-based care, joint decision-making, respite care, and lower costs.
- Three provider segments and two patient segments were identified through latent class analysis.
- Patients showed larger preference shifts than providers in simulated scenarios.
- Differences highlight the need for integrating both perspectives in palliative care service design.