Development and Evaluation of a Decision Aid to Support Patients’ Participatory Decision-Making for Tumor-Specific and Palliative Therapy for Advanced Cancer: Protocol for a Pre-Post Study

Katsiaryna Laryionava   ^{1, 2} , Dr rer med ;   Jan Schildmann   ¹ , Prof Dr ;   Michael Wensing   ³ , Prof Dr ;   Ullrich Wedding   ⁴ , PD, MD ;   Bastian Surmann   ⁵ , MSci ;   Lena Woydack   ² , Dr med ;   Katja Krug   ³ , PhD ;   Eva Winkler   ² , PhD, Prof Dr

¹ Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine, Centre for Health Sciences, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

² Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

³ Department of General Practice and Health Services Research, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

⁴ Palliative Care, Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Jena, Jena, Germany

⁵ Health Economics and Health Care Management, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany