Background/objective Oncology guidelines recommend earlier communication with patients
about prognosis and goals‐of‐care in serious illness. However, current evidence leaves …

Purpose: Communicating about the end of life with patients has been reported as one of the
most difficult and stressful part of the work of oncologists. Despite this fact, oncologists …

A health literate health care organization is one that makes it easy for people to navigate,
understand, and use information and services to take care of their health. This chapter …

Many family caregivers are unprepared for the death of their loved one and may suffer from
worse mental health as a result. We therefore sought to determine the factors that family …

Background Practicing healthcare professionals and graduates exiting training programs
are often ill-equipped to facilitate important discussions about end-of-life care with patients …

Background Oncology patients and physicians value empathy because of its association
with improved health outcomes. Common measures of empathy lack consistency and were …

The delivery of palliative care to patients with advanced cancer and their families, whether
done by oncology clinicians or palliative care clinicians, requires patient-centered …

Delivering serious, bad, or life-altering news to a patient is one of the most difficult tasks
physicians encounter. Broadly defined as information that may alter a patient's view of his or …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Advance care discussions (ACD) occur infrequently or
are initiated late in the course of illness. Although data exist regarding barriers to ACD …

A major question in the study of empathy—the capacity to share and understand others'
internal states—is whether it can be increased. Scientists have designed a number of …