CONTEXT: The End of Life Care Strategy for England highlights effective communication
between patients and professionals as key to facilitating patient involvement in advance …

Background: Delivering bad news to patients is an essential communication skill for
physicians. Educators commonly use standardized patient (SP) encounters to train …

Family caregivers are often required to make treatment decisions on behalf of
institutionalized loved ones with advanced-stage dementia. Deciding on appropriate …

Purpose To evaluate relationships among physician and cancer patient survival estimates,
patients' perceived quality of life, care preferences, and outcomes, and how they vary across …

OBJECTIVES: To identify factors that may influence the decision of whether to enter a
hospice program or to continue with a traditional hospital approach in patients with …

Advance directives (ADs) might be useful in achieving improved communication and
satisfaction with decision making at the end-of-life. Our aims were to better characterise …

Assessment of suffering is extremely important in dying end-stage dementia patients
(ESDP). We have developed and examined the reliability and validity of the Mini-Suffering …

Patient suffering is a pathological syndrome traditionally viewed as encompassing
psychological distress, spiritual concerns, and various aspects of physical pain. There is …

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore spiritual care for dying nursing home
residents from the perspectives of registered nurses, practical nurses, certified nursing …

Cancer is frequently a disease of older individuals. Communication between physicians and
older patients about cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment and care is …