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Offers guidelines on breaking bad news to patients. General principles in breaking bad news; Specific steps for breaking the news; Important way to determine the appropriateness of guidelines for conveying bad news.

Outlines steps to encourage physicians to adopt the best practices for conveying bad news to medical patients. Characteristics that increase the likelihood that clinical guidelines are credible and acceptable to clinicians; Most commonly used mechanisms informing providers about guidelines; Importance of providing performance-based feedback to clinicians.

Outlines steps to encourage clinicians to adopt the best practices for communicating bad news to patients. Production of medical practice guidelines; Ways to disseminate the guidelines; Provision of performance-based feedback to clinicians.

Discusses guidelines on how physicians should break bad news to their patients. Perspectives on the types of information that patients desire; Physicians' competence in breaking bad news; General principles for breaking bad news to patients. INSET: Essential steps in breaking bad news to medical patients.

Offers a look at related literature on breaking bad news to medical patients. Sources of materials; Types of citations; Methodological quality of randomized controlled trials.