Gerber, Katrin; Hayes, Barbara; Bryant, Christina
The strategies that researchers and clinicians use to capture the end-of-life views of patients vary greatly in four key questions. These include: what, how, when and who to ask about location preferences. The authors argue that how researchers and clinicians choose to answer these questions directly influences their findings. Ways to improve future palliative care and empirical end-of-life studies by addressing the precision, methods, timing and sources of preference assessments are highlighted.