Examples from included studies for key concepts relating to factors influencing prioritisation
| Concept | Examples from included studies | |
| Factors influencing prioritisation | Functional ability | ‘I mean, because I have to be mobile, I am living on my own, no one is going to take care of me, I have got to look after myself…’ Cheraghi-Sohi et al 50 |
| Mortality | ‘Well I really do worry the most about the high blood pressure. ’Cause see you know you got arthritis and you can tell when it’s coming on. But you can’t hardly tell about high blood pressure. It can just hit you like that [snaps fingers] ….’ Lindsay et al 49 | |
| Symptom control | ‘I would not want to live with pain. I won't allow that to happen’Naik et al 42 | |
| Disparity in prioritisation of symptom control | ‘… I talk [to her] for a quarter of an hour about this and that every time after which she replies, ‘but my vertigo,’ and I answer every time, well, unfortunately there is nothing I can do about it, we have already tried and done everything. But it is probably the first diagnosis she will mention: ‘What are you suffering from?’. ‘Vertigo’. For me, this would be somewhere all the way at the bottom.’ Hansen et al 55 | |
| Treatment burden | ‘It’s the knee that’s the most concerning because everything else is controlled by tablets. The knee is a problem because if I have one little slip I’m in plaster again for 6 weeks.’ Lindsay et al 49 |