Using value-focused thinking to elicit oncologic inpatients' life and treatment objectives: a qualitative interview study.

Objective: Value-focused thinking (VFT) is a decision-making method that places the qualitative elicitation of decisionmakers' objectives at the beginning of the decision-making process. A potential healthcare application of VFT is to elicit patients' objectives to better understand what matters to them. Only then can treatments be tailored accordingly.