OBJECTIVE Though most patients wish to discuss end-of-life (EOL) issues, doctors are reluctant to conduct end-of-life conversations. Little is known about the barriers doctors face in conducting effective EOL conversations with diverse patients. This mixed methods study was undertaken to empirically identify barriers faced by doctors (if any) in conducting effective EOL conversations with diver...

BACKGROUND Despite the benefits to early palliative care in the treatment of terminal illness, barriers to timely hospice referrals exist. Physicians who are more comfortable having end-of-life (EOL) conversations are more likely to refer to hospice. However, very little is known about what factors influence comfort with EOL care. METHODS An anonymous survey was sent to all the residents and ...

We present privacy-sensitive methods for (1) automatically finding multi-person conversations in spontaneous, situated speech data and (2) segmenting those conversations into speaker turns. The methods protect privacy through a feature set that is rich enough to capture conversational styles and dynamics, but not sufficient for reconstructing intelligible speech. Experimental results show that ...

opinion Free Access Share on Conversations: Conversations with a Prominent Propagator: Barbara Ericson Authors: David P. Bunde Knox College CollegeView Profile , Zack Butler Rochester Institute of Technology TechnologyView Christopher L. Hovey University Colorado Boulder BoulderView Cynthia Taylor Oberlin Authors Info & Claims ACM InroadsVolume 14Issue 1March 2023 pp 16–19https://doi.org/10.114...