Table 2.
Topics addressed in the questionnaire.
| Assessed topics | Patients | Oncologists | Nurses |
| Cancer-specific distress | ✓ | — | — |
| Depression | ✓ | — | — |
| Information needs regarding disease (eg, prognosis, side effects, life expectation) | ✓ | — | — |
| Actual received information regarding disease | ✓ | — | — |
| Factors that influenced oncologists’ decision of treatment limitation (eg, patients’ age, quality of life) | — | ✓ | — |
| Estimation of patients’ life expectation | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Perceived (estimated) quality of life | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Information need for advanced directive/role of the advanced directive | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Discussed treatment limitation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Planned or current treatment | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Level of difficulty of treatment limitation decisions | — | ✓ | — |
| Challenges that influenced treatment limitation | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Consensus relating to treatment limitation decisions | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Involvement of nurses in decision-making | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Perceived aim of the treatment/estimation of patients’ preferences regarding treatment limitation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Discussion of the treatment aim/involvement of patients in decision-making | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Preference for quality or length of life | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Role in medical decisions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Estimation of awareness of patients’ prognosis | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Satisfaction with oncologists’ communication/communication with patients | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Perceived role of the family, wish for family involvement/involvement of family members | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Satisfaction with treatment decisions/consensus with oncologist | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Perception of optimal time for treatment limitation | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Moral distress and its reasons | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support needs | — | ✓ | ✓ |