Communicating with the dying

Communicating with the dying.

Non-verbal signals are very subtle: they are socially learnt and can be as confusing to a foreigner as an unknown language. We watch a person's face and observe slight changes of expression in the eyes or mouth. We note the making or evasion of eye contact and whether the movement is natural or forced. We unconsciously see the embarrassed wave of a hand and hear a change in the timbre of the vo...

Communicating with dying people and their relatives

Sir-In a study of constitutional restriction fragment length polymorphisms at the HRAS1 locus in patients with small cell (SCLC) and non-small cell cancer (NSCLC) of the lung and in a control group we reported earlier differences in the distribution of the common alleles between these three groups (Heighway et al., 1986). The main difference was a relative increase of the number of individuals ...

Communicating with dying patients within the spectrum of medical care from terminal diagnosis to death.

BACKGROUND Efforts to improve communication between physicians and dying patients have been unsuccessful, and guidelines for improving patient-physician communication about end-of-life care are based primarily on expert opinion. This study assessed which aspects of communication between patients and physicians are important in end-of-life care. METHODS Twenty focus groups were held with 137 i...

Communicating with Patients in Heart Care Department

به نظر می رسد نسبت به ۳۰ سال گذشته، هم اکنون پرستاران تمایل بیشتری به افشاء پیش آگهی نهایی بیماران محتضر دارند. نواک و همکاران (۱۹۷۹) الگوهای ارتباطی در حال تغییر پزشکان در رابطه با بیماران محتضر را که بوسیله سه مطالعه امریکایی گزارش شده بود مورد بررسی مجدد قرار دادند. تعداد پزشکان که حاضر به افشاء وضعیت بیمار محتضر نبودند از ۲ تا ۸۸ متغیر بود. در مطالعه ای که بوسیله مکینتاش در دهه ۱۹۷۰ در انگل...

Dying with dignity.