How family caregivers of persons with advanced cancer assist with upstream healthcare decision-making: A qualitative study

• J. Nicholas Dionne-Odom ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dionneod@uab.edu

  Affiliations School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6764-0254

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• Deborah Ejem,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Rachel Wells,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Amber E. Barnato,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

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• Richard A. Taylor,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Gabrielle B. Rocque,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Yasemin E. Turkman,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Matthew Kenny,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Nataliya V. Ivankova,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, School of Health Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Marie A. Bakitas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Michelle Y. Martin

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Innovation in Health Equity Research, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

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