Embodied decisions unfolding over time: a meta-ethnography systematic review of people with cancer’s reasons for delaying or declining end-of-life care

Table 3 Themes identified in included studies

Themes/constructs	Reviewed papers (in publication order)
	Vig et al. (2010) [14]	Carrion (2010) [15]	Chapple et al. (2011) [16]	Frey et al. (2013) [17]	Meeker et al. (2014) [18]	Waldrop et al. (2015) [19]	Lin et al. (2019) [20]	Pini et al. (2020) [22]	Spencer et al. (2020) [21]
Influences
Person Factors
identity		✔		✔	✔	✔
hope		✔			✔	✔	✔	✔
emotions	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
preferences	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔			✔	✔
quality of life / suffering	✔		✔		✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
readiness / preparedness	✔	✔				✔	✔	✔	✔
end-of-life care knowledge & perceptions	✔	✔	✔	✔			✔	✔	✔
Medical factors
treatment options	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
prognosis	✔	✔			✔	✔	✔	✔
relationships with providers	✔		✔	✔				✔	✔
trust	✔		✔	✔	✔		✔		✔
Contextual factors	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		✔
Interpretive themes
Communication: timing, services and content	✔	✔		✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Uncertainty						✔	✔	✔	✔
Evolving situations			✔		✔	✔			✔
Key construct
Decisions unfolding over time					✔	✔			✔

Bold text indicates third order interpretive themes and key concepts developed by the review authors and non-bold text indicates second order constructs from the included articles

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