Table 1 PECOS Criteria
Population | Family members or caregivers of adult patients with life-limiting illness, through the point of death |
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Exposure | Caring for an adult patient who is dying (life expectancy < 3–6 months) or who chooses hastened death (medical aid in dying, voluntarily stopping eating and drinking, euthanasia) |
Context | Caregiving in the home |
Outcome | Caregivers’ emotional, practical, and philosophical experiences with caring for loved ones at end of life, either because of illness or related to deliberately hastened death |
Study Design | Qualitative: interviews, focus groups, phenomenology, ethnography |