The Case of the Delicate Discussion.

In this article the author talks about receiving treatment for ovarian cancer. It mentions that patients with advanced lung and colorectal cancer revealed that 69 percent of the patients with lung cancer and 81 percent of the patients with colorectal cancer did not understand that the treatment was not considered curative. It also mentions the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) uses open-ended and rating questions to prompt conversations about what matters most to the patient.