Abstract Breaking bad news is a challenging task in medical practice, reason why this topic’s relevance has grown the training of future professionals. In intensive care units, type communication mixed with multiple situations, such as management information involving worsening clinical conditions and possibility imminent death, especially pediatric cases. Given context, objective if study was ...

UNLABELLED Communicating "bad news" to patients and their families can be difficult for physicians. OBJECTIVE This qualitative study aimed to examine residents' perceptions of barriers to delivering bad news to patients and their family members. DESIGN Two focus groups consisting of first- and second-year medical and surgical residents were conducted to explore residents' perceptions of the...

this paper examines the effect of systematic risk on accounting conservatism. the idea is that in firms with higher systematic risk, managers have higher incentives to delay the recognition of bad news in the hope of future good news. they also face less demand for conservatism from investors and auditors. in this paper, for measuring systematic risk and accounting conservatism, we used beta fr...

INTRODUCTION The health service involves a spectrum of personnel working together towards achieving a common goal, namely the delivery of high quality health care. This involves a large volume of communication between members of staff and patients and their relatives. Doctors are trained to deal with various clinical situations but receive little or no training in communication skills and there...

BACKGROUND The concerns of patients suffering from life-threatening disease and end-of-life care aspects have gained increasing attention in public perception. The increasing focus on palliative medicine questions can be considered to be paradigmatic for this development. Palliative medicine became a compulsory subject of the undergraduate curriculum in Germany to be implemented until 2013. The...