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Structure and variation in end-of-life discussions in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit

The research reported here is an exploratory discourse analysis of a corpus of six end-of-life discussions in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU), describing the structure and variations of the four phases of an end-of-life discussion in terms of the function of each of these phases: the Opening (Phase 1), Description of Current Status (Phase 2), Holistic Decision Making (Phase 3), and Logistics of Dying (Phase 4)...

Keywords: physician?patient interaction, end-of-life care, Decision Making, Intensive Care, bad news, palliative care, discourse analysis

01/2005 | Communication & Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
‘Things aren't the same, are they?’: The management of bad news delivery in the discourse of stroke care

Health professionals associated with stroke care tend to emphasize the optimistic possibilities for recovery from stroke and downplay its disabling nature...

Keywords: Stroke, Communication, Prognosis, bad news, optimism, occupational therapy

01/2005 | Communication & Medicine, Walter de Gruyter