Objective To obtain feedback from patients receiving palliative care and their relatives from
various ethnic backgrounds about their experiences of the disclosure process and their …

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Pressure from legal authorities and consumer groups for statutory control over the processes
of informed consent for clinical trials and treatments suggests that communication is …

Objectives: To explore why cancer patients do not want or seek information about their
condition beyond that volunteered by their physicians at times during their illness. Design …

Objective To examine how much oncologists tell patients about the survival benefit of
palliative chemotherapy during consultations at which decisions about treatment are made …

Objectives: To discover cancer patients' views about disclosure of information to their family,
their family's influence over the information given them, and their preferences for doctors' …

OBJECTIVE: To describe the attitudes towards truth-telling of both terminal patients and
professional caregivers, and to determine their perceived barriers to full information …

BACKGROUND The difficulty of negotiating the concerns of family members while also
respecting the needs of the patient adds complexity to the task of discussing prognosis and …

Goals The aims of this study were to describe to what extent cancer patients with incurable
cancer report to have been informed about disease-related topics and how they evaluate the …

Background Conversation and discourse analytic research has yielded important evidence
about skills needed for effective, sensitive communication with patients about illness …