Living at the end-of-life: experience of time of patients with cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim of this study was to gain insight into the experience of time of terminal patients with cancer. Experience of time is relevant in palliative care in both policy and practice. On a policy level, the Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY), the most used outcome measure for cost-effectiveness analysis in healthcare, assumes time to be a linear and additive variable, which is one of the reasons that its applicability in palliative care is questioned. On a practice level, a better understanding of the experience of time of patients with limited time left, could help to recognize if and how these patients can have a more meaningful use of time. The main focus of this study was to discover whether time perception of these patients in their last months of life had changed as

SUBMITTER: Rovers JJE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6518794 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature