Shared decision-making quality and decisional regret in patients with low-risk superficial basal cell carcinoma: A prospective, multicenter cohort study.

Background: Many therapies are available to treat low-risk superficial basal cell carcinoma (lr-sBCC), which may complicate the shared decision-making (SDM) process.

Objective: To assess the SDM process of patients and physicians when deciding lr-sBCC therapy as well as the factors that may influence the SDM process.

Methods: A prospective, multicenter cohort study was conducted over 18 months, from October 2018 to April 2020, in 3 tertiary university hospitals and 1 private hospital.