Strategies for treatment decision-making among esophagogastric cancer patients with limited health literacy: findings from a qualitative study

Patients with limited health literacy and/or numeracy (HL) can face challenges in utilizing key numerical risk and benefit information throughout their decision-making process. Previous research has focused on understanding this numerical information but has often not examined different aspects involved in decision-making strategies. We investigated the strategies used by patients with limited HL in treatment decision-making for esophagogastric cancer, while taking into account their use of numerical outcome-information.