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Table 4 What influenced you most in making your decision? Quantitative responses

From: Choice of dialysis modality: patients’ experiences and quality of decision after shared decision-making

Total sample

(n = 148)

Home-based treatment

(n = 121)

Hospital-based treatment

(n = 24)

Talking to the dialysis coordinator

94%

Talking to the dialysis coordinator

96%

Talking to the dialysis coordinator

96%

Talking to your doctor

43%

Talking to your doctor

47%

Patient decision aid

38%

Patient decision aid

39%

Patient decision aid

40%

Speaking to other patients/ Talking to your doctor

25%

Kidney school

25%

Something elsea/Looking on the internet

9%

Something elsea

17%

Speaking to other patients

11%

Speaking to other patients

8%

Kidney school

8%

Something elsea

9%

  
  1. a‘Something else’ was most commonly relatives, either the patient’s spouse or children