Table 1.

Scoping Literature Review Thematic Category Item Counts in All Survey Rounds

Thematic categories	Round 1 no. of items	Round 2 no. of items	Round 3 no. of items
Information delivery/patient education	19	11	2
Interpersonal clinician-patient communication	4	5	0
Framework of the decision	10	6	0
Total	33*	22	2

*There were 32 Likert-type items in round one. However, one item counts twice in this table because it was assigned to two thematic categories