Palliative care, a rapidly growing medical specialty, uses a team approach to enhance
quality of care for persons with serious illness. This review summarizes recent trends and …

Effective communication skills enable physicians to improve patients' understanding of their
illnesses, improve patient adherence to treatment regimens, use time efficiently, avoid …

Shared decision making for advanced heart failure has become both more challenging and
more crucial as duration of disease and treatment options have increased. High-quality …

Background Few studies have assessed the efficacy of communication skills training for
postgraduate physician trainees at the level of behaviors. We designed a residential …

Although the practice of oncology can be extremely rewarding, it is also one of the most
demanding and stressful areas of medicine. Oncologists are faced with life and death …

This first German evidence-based guideline for cutaneous melanoma was developed under
the auspices of the German Dermatological Society (DDG) and the Dermatologic …

Purpose In the past decade studies have documented substantial suffering among children
dying of cancer, prompting national attention on the quality of end-of-life care and the …

Current research in communication in physician–patient consultations is multidisciplinary
and multimethodological. As this research has progressed, a considerable body of evidence …

In this paper, the authors engage in a critical analysis of the existing empirical literature
which addresses the impact of ineffective communication between cancer patients and …

BACKGROUND When bad news about a cancer diagnosis is being delivered, patient‐
centered communication (PCC) has been considered important for patients' adjustment and …