Communication is an integral component in palliative care. A number of studies have used
conversation analysis (CA) to examine communication between healthcare professionals …

Inzwischen gilt es in den meisten, wenn nicht gar in allen medizinischen Subdisziplinen als
unbestrittene Tatsache, dass Gesprächsführung eine elementare Komponente der …

ObjectivesTo explore the perceptions of parents caring for a child with a life-limiting
condition on approaches to communication used by clinicians engaging in routine serious …

We report the development and assessment of a novel coding framework in the context of
research into neonatal end-of-life decision making conversations. Data comprised 27 formal …

Background: Families play a vital role in the day-to-day medical care of children with life-
limiting conditions. Navigating their child's symptoms, treatments, and the possibility of …

Background Pandemics pose significant challenges for healthcare systems, including an
increase in difficult discussions about future illness progression and end of life. Objectives …

Communication between healthcare professionals and the relatives and friends of patients
who are imminently dying is a key part of providing high quality end-of-life care. The primary …

Social scientific research on death has taken for granted an assumption of cultural difference
in communication about the end of life. Western cultures supposedly have an open attitude …

The article examines a corpus of palliative care interactions recorded in a large UK hospice.
It focuses on a collection of patient possible allusions to disease progression and end of life …

Families of children with life-limiting prognoses are often their primary care providers. The
child's variable condition and changing care requirements can result in families' uncertainty …