Having the difficult conversations about the end of life

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 341, Issue 7774, 2010, Pages 653-655

  Barclay, Stephen ^a   Maher, Jane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MOUNT VERNON CANCER CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CONVERSATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOPE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TERMINAL CARE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CAREGIVERS; COMMUNICATION; FEAR; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 77957129694     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c4862     Document Type: Review

References (29)

1. Office for National Statistics. Mortality Statistics 2005. HMSO, 2005.
2. Murray S, Kendall M, Boyd K, Sheikh A. Illness trajectories and palliative care. BMJ 2005;330:1007-12. [FREE Full text]
3. Christakis N, Lamont E. Extent and determinants of error in doctors' prognosis in terminally ill patients: prospective cohort study. BMJ 2000;320:469-73. [Abstract/FREE Full text]
4. Glare P, Virik K, Jones M, Hudson M, Eychmuller S, Simes J, et al. A systematic review of physicians' survival predictions in terminally ill cancer patients. BMJ 2003;327:195-8. [Abstract/FREE Full text] (Pubitemid 36920584)
5. Murray S, Boyd K, Sheikh A. Palliative care in chronic illness. We need to move from prognostic paralysis to active total care. BMJ 2005;330:611-2. [FREE Full text]
6. Cleland J, Chattopadhyay S, Houghton T, Kaye G. Prevalence and incidence of arrythmias and sudden death in heart failure. Heart Fail Rev 2002;7:229-42. [CrossRef] [Medline] (Pubitemid 35153521)
7. Maltoni M, Amadori D. Prognosis in advanced cancer. Haematol Oncol Clin N Am 2002;16:715-29. [CrossRef]
8. Christakis N. Attitude and self-reported practice regarding prognostication in a national sample of internists. Arch Intern Med 1998;158:2389-95. [Abstract/FREE Full text] (Pubitemid 28536493)
9. Gattellari M, Voigt K, Butow P, Tattersall M. When the treatment goal is not cure: are cancer patients equipped to make informed decisions? J Clin Oncol 2002;20:503-13. [Abstract/FREE Full text]
10. Koedoot C, Oort F, de Haan R, Bakker P, de Graeff A, de Haes J. The content and amount of information given by medical oncologists when telling patients with advanced cancer what their treatment options are: palliative chemotherapy and watchful-waiting. Eur J Cancer 2004;40:225-35. [CrossRef] [Medline] [Web of Science] (Pubitemid 38077025)
11. Berry S. Just say die. J Clin Oncol 2008;26:157-9. [FREE Full text]
12. Mackillop W, Stewart W, Ginsburg A, Stewart S. Cancer patients' perceptions of their disease and its treatment. Br J Cancer 1998;58:355-8.
13. Todd C, Still A. Communication between general practitioners and patients dying at home. Soc Sci Med 1984;18:667-72. [CrossRef] [Medline] [Web of Science]
14. Heffner J, Barbieri C. End of life preferences for patients enrolled in heart failure rehabilitation programmes. Chest 2000;117:1474-81. [Abstract/FREE Full text]
15. Christakis N. Predicting patient survival before and after hospice enrollment. Hospice Journal 1998;13:71-87. [Medline]
16. Murtagh F, Preston M, Higginson I. Patterns of dying: palliative care for non-malignant disease. Clinical Medicine 2004;4:39-44. [CrossRef] [Medline] [Web of Science] (Pubitemid 38252184)
17. Kirk P, Kirk I, Kristjanson L. What do patients receiving palliative care for cancer and their families want to be told? A Canadian and Australian qualitative study. BMJ 2004;328:1343-7. [Abstract/FREE Full text] (Pubitemid 38738489)
18. Wright A, Zhang B, Ray A, Mack J, Trice E, Balboni T, et al. Associations between end-of-life discussions, patient mental health, medical care near death and caregiver bereavement adjustment. JAMA 2008;300:1665-73. [Abstract/FREE Full text]
19. Macmillan Cancer Support. Unclaimed millions. 2004. www.macmillan.org.uk/ Documents/GetInvolved/Campaigns/Campaigns/the-unclaimed-millions.pdf.
20. Dale J, Petrova M, Munday D, Koistinen-Harris J, Lall J, Thomas K. A national facilitation project to improve primary palliative care: impact of the Gold Standards Framework on process and self-ratings of quality. Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:174-80. [Abstract/FREE Full text]
21. Lynn J. Serving patients who may die soon and their families. JAMA 2001;285:925-32. [Abstract/FREE Full text]
22. Ellershaw J, Wilkinson S. Care of the dying. A pathway to excellence. Oxford University Press, 2003.
23. Buckman R. How to break bad news. Pan Books, 1992.
24. Hurwitz B, Vass A. What's a good doctor and how do you make one? BMJ 2002;325:667-8. [FREE Full text]
25. Coulter A. Patient views of the good doctor. BMJ 2002;325:668-9. [FREE Full text]
26. Quirt C, Mackillop W, Ginsburg A, Sheldon L, Brundage M, Dixon P, et al. Do doctors know when their patients don't? A survey of doctor-patient communication in lung cancer. Lung Cancer 1997;18:1-20. [CrossRef] [Medline] [Web of Science] (Pubitemid 27356214)
27. Ford S, Fallowfield L, Lewis S. Can oncologists detect distress in their out-patients and how satisfied are they with their performance during bad news consultations? Br J Cancer 1994;70:767-70. [Medline] [Web of Science] (Pubitemid 24305619)
28. Wenrich M, Curtis R, Shannon S, Carline J, Ambrozy D, Ramsey P. Communicating with dying patients within the spectrum of medical care from terminal diagnosis to death. Arch Intern Med 2001;161:868-74. [Abstract/FREE Full text] (Pubitemid 32225397)
29. Barclay S, Case-Upton S. Knowing patients' preferences for place of death: how possible or desirable? Br J Gen Pract 2009;59:642-3. [CrossRef] [Medline] [Web of Science]