Background: Achieving universal access to palliative care is considered a global and equity
priority. Understanding patients and caregivers' attitudes and preferences towards palliative …

Background: Moral distress is a neglected issue in most palliative education programmes,
and research has largely focused on this phenomenon as an occupational problem for …

Objective Disclosing the truth when breaking bad news continues to be difficult for health
professionals, yet it is essential for patients when making informed decisions about their …

Background Patient autonomy is a fundamental, yet challenging, principle of professional
medical ethics. The idea that individual patients should have the freedom to make choices …

Patients with advanced cancer are at high risk of losing vital body resources resulting in
malnutrition, immunodeficiency, impaired quality of life and worse clinical outcome …

Objectives We aimed to explore how doctors in China decide whether to inform cancer
patients about diagnosis and prognosis. Methods We conducted in-depth, semi-structured …

This study aimed to determine whether family-centered multidisciplinary rounds could
alleviate anxiety and uncertainty in illness and meet needs for critically ill patients' families. A …

Instead of telling the whole truth, doctors sometimes resort to prosocial lies when diagnosing
illness to protect patients from psychological harm. Recent advances in artificial intelligence …

Aims The associations between prognostic awareness, acceptance of illness and
psychological outcomes (anxiety, depression and spiritual well-being) remain unclear. This …

Honesty and deception have unique antecedents and consequences within the context of
healthcare, relative to other social contexts. While modern professional standards …