Dancing around death: Hospitalist-patient communication about serious illness

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-13

  Anderson, Wendy G ^a   Kools, Susan ^a   Lyndon, Audrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

communication, medical; death and dying; dimensional analysis; end of life issues; health care, acute critical; illness and disease, life threatening terminal; medicine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RECORDING; STANDARD; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALISTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TAPE RECORDING; TERMINALLY ILL; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870003424     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732312461728     Document Type: Article

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