Effective communication between dying cancer patients and their health care providers
about prognosis and treatment options ensures informed decision making at the end of life …

Objective There is a limited understanding of symptom meaning and its significance to
clinical practice within symptom experience literature. This study aims to qualitatively …

Effective communication in palliative care would be the goal of most health care workers;
these skills are assumed to be innate in the caring professions but the evidence can be …

Health care provider communication proficiency is critical in the initiation and revisitation of
these discussions throughout the trajectory of chronic illness. The delivery of palliative care …

Background: Communication about prognosis is a key ingredient of effective palliative care.
When patients with advanced cancer develop increased prognostic understanding, there is …

Talking about sad, bad, and difficult things with patients and their families is a fundamental
and an inevitable part of the health-care professional's (HCPs) work, but one in which few …

This preliminary study seeks to establish a baseline of barriers to communication as
identified by healthcare professionals (HCPs) working as part of interdisciplinary palliative …

This exceptional work explores the complexities of communication at one of the most critical
stages of the life experience--during advanced, serious illness and at the end of life …

When speaking to public audiences, palliative care advocates often reach for personal
experiences of great meaning and significance in their own lives, and often distill those …

The key to quality end-of-life care is a trusting physician-patient relationship and satisfying
communication. Training and experience are needed to effectively share bad news, elicit …