Does Shared Decision Making in Cancer Treatment Improve Quality of Life? A Systematic Literature Review

The growing consensus espousing the use of shared decision making (SDM) in cancer treatment has coincided with the rise of health care evaluation paradigms that emphasize quality of life (QOL) as a central outcome measure. This review systematically examines the association between treatment SDM and QOL outcomes in cancer.A range of bibliographic databases and gray literature sources was searched. The search retrieved 16,726 records, which were...