Patient–Caregiver Treatment Preference Discordance and Its Association With Caregiving Burden and Esteem

Background and Objectives Many patient–caregiver dyads report conflicting treatment decisions regarding preferences for life extension treatments and symptom management. It is possible that this discordance will lead to negative psychological outcomes including lowered caregiving esteem and increased caregiver burden. However, the relationships between treatment discordance among dyads and caregiver psychological outcomes are not well studied...