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Breaking Bad News: Attitudes of Physicians and Patients in Primary Care

Authors :
Zvi H. Perry
Aya Biderman
Amir Rosenblatt
Source :
Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education. 17:17-25
Publication Year :
2011
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2011.

Abstract

Objective To understand and evaluate the skills primary care physicians need to convey bad news, from both the patients’ as well as the physicians’ points of view. These data were used to formulate clinical guidelines about conveying bad news.

Subjects

Subjects :
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
education
social sciences
Primary care
InformationSystems_GENERAL
Family medicine
behavior and behavior mechanisms
medicine
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
InformationSystems_MISCELLANEOUS
business
health care economics and organizations
General Environmental Science

Details

ISSN :
10751211
Volume :
17
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........935f1441e7a95bac77add257dff5ae99

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