Primary care clinicians face difficult conversations with patients across the life cycle. As
clinicians care for patients in different health states, the focus of these challenging …

Communication about end-of-life care is increasingly recognized as a core clinical skill, but
doctors are often unprepared to have these conversations. Crisis situations at the end of life …

Background Communication is the cornerstone of good multidisciplinary medical care, and
the impact of conversations about diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis is indisputable …

As a clinician involved in caring for patients with serious illness, one frequently is tasked with
helping patients and their families navigate various points of the patient's illness trajectory …

Advance care planning originally focused on the completion of advance directives and tries
to address this need by preparing patients for decision-making …

This brief article aims at heightening awareness about communication with various patients,
including strategies to assist in improving communicative effectiveness. It assists us as …

Physician competence in end-of-life care requires skill in communication, decision making,
and building relationships, yet these skills were not taught to the majority of physicians …

Importance The Institute of Medicine recently called for systematic improvements in clinician-
led conversations about goals, values, and care preferences for patients with serious and …

WORDS MATTER. WHAT CLINICIANS SAY AND HOW they say it hugely affect patients. 1-3
Commu-nicating about emotionally and medically complex topics such as advance care …

Communicating bad news to patients and their families is a difficult but routine responsibility
for hospitalists. Most practitioners have little or no formal training for this task. Preparation …