Table 2 Patient eligibility
From: Living at the end-of-life: experience of time of patients with cancer
Inclusion criteria | Age of ≥18 years |
Having a life-threatening oncologic disease with a prognosis of 3 months or less (hospice setting) | |
No evidence of cognitive disorders (physicians’ judgement) | |
Being able to read and speak Dutch | |
Written informed consent | |
Being able to reflect on their disease (physicians’ judgement) | |
Not receiving anti-tumor therapy and recovered from acute treatment toxicities at the moment of inclusion | |
Exclusion criteria | Extreme morbidity precluding the ability to speak for 30 min (Karnofsky Performance Scale 40) |
Clinical signs of severe mood disorders (physicians’ judgement) |