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Items for "Communication"

‘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
Integrating patients' nonmedical status in end-of-life decision making: Structuring communication through ‘conferencing’

This paper considers the nonmedical status of patients in end-of-life decisions. Considering nonmedical factors is not yet routine, particularly in decisions to withhold or withdraw treatment...

Keywords: death and dying, Intensive Care, family conferences, Communication, Decision Making, end-of-life care

11/2006 | Communication & Medicine, Walter de Gruyter