Terminally Ill Cancer Patients’ Concordance between Preferred Life-Sustaining Treatment States in Their Last 6 Months of Life and Received Life-Sustaining Treatment States in Their Last Month: An Observational Study

The extent to which patients' preferences for end-of-life (EOL) care are honored may be distorted if preferences are measured long before death, a common approach of existing research. We examined the concordance between cancer patients' states of life-sustaining treatments (LSTs) received in their last month and LST-preference states assessed longitudinally over their last 6 months.

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