Background: Effective communication between healthcare professionals and relatives of
patients approaching the end-of-life is vital to ensure patients have a 'good death'. To …

Background There is growing recognition that a diverse range of healthcare professionals
need competence in palliative approaches to care. Effective communication is a core …

This article presents a contemporary view on the state of the art of applied conversation
analytic studies of medical consultations. I begin by considering why conversation analysts …

Abstract Purpose of this Review The purpose of this review is to describe the evolution of
palliative care in paediatric oncology, the needs of children and their families in a paediatric …

Communication is central to pediatric care. Conversation analytic (CA) studies of recorded
naturally occurring pediatric interactions contribute distinctive understandings; however, to …

Objective To break new ground by directly examining how patients seek life-expectancy
estimates, and how doctors support them in doing so. Methods Conversation analytic …

Background Although a significant proportion of children with cancer need palliative care,
few are referred or referred late, with oncologists and haematologists gatekeeping the …

Background With paediatric patients, deciding whether to withhold/withdraw life-sustaining
treatments (LST) at the end of life is difficult and ethically sensitive. Little is understood about …

Objective To synthesize existing qualitative research exploring the experiences of parents
caring for children with cancer during the end‐of‐life phase, and the factors that influence …

Children's agency in their own lives is increasingly recognised as important, including within
paediatric health care. The issue of acknowledging child agency is complex in the context of …