'Things aren't the same, are they?': The management of bad news delivery in the discourse of stroke care

Communication and Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-44

  Grainger, Karen P ^a   Masterson, Simon ^a   Jennings, Michael ^b  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bad news; Communication; Occupational therapy; Optimism; Prognosis; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL CARE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST; PATIENT CARE; STROKE; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 27344431875     PISSN: 16121783     EISSN: 16133625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/come.2005.2.1.35     Document Type: Article

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