Breaking bad news sensitively: what is important to patients in their last year of life?

BMJ supportive & palliative care

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 24-28

  Hanratty, Barbara ^a   Lowson, Elizabeth ^a   Holmes, Louise ^a   Grande, Gunn ^a   Jacoby, Ann ^a   Payne, Sheila ^a   Seymour, Jane ^a   Whitehead, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CAREGIVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CAREGIVERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNICATION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MEDICAL FUTILITY; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84871579045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20454368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2011-000084     Document Type: Article

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