Background Patients have a 'need to know'(instrumental need) and a 'need to feel
known'(affective need). During consultations with patients with limited health literacy (LHL) …

Objectives Affective communication in outpatient care is important, especially in the
palliative phase. Appropriate responses by healthcare providers to emotional cues or …

Background Communication and shared decision-making (SDM) are essential to patient-
centered care. Hospital-based palliative care with patients with limited health literacy (LHL) …

Background Person-centred palliative care poses high demands on professionals and
patients regarding appropriate and effective communication and informed decision-making …

Background The non-curative setting makes communication and shared decision-making in
palliative care extremely demanding. This is even more so for patients with limited health …

Introduction. An important goal of palliative care is improving the quality of life of patients
and their partners/families. To attain this goal, requirements and preferences of patients …

Objective Both patients in the palliative phase of their disease and patients with limited
health literacy (LHL) have an increased risk of being influenced by healthcare providers …

Palliative care—patient and family-centered care that optimizes quality of life by anticipating,
preventing, and treating suffering—needs to be integrated into the care of all serious …

Objective. Different social norms influence the type and amount of information transmitted to
palliative care patients. In Italy disclosure rate is low and medical decisions are often …

Background Early integration of palliative care concurrently to standard cancer care is
associated with several benefits for patients and their caregivers. However, communication …