BACKGROUND Communicating bad news serves different goals in health care, and the extent to which physicians and patients agree on the goals of these conversations may influence their process and outcomes. However, we know little about what goals physicians and patients perceive as important and how the perceptions of physicians and patients compare. OBJECTIVE To compare physicians' and patien...

Using a sample of 2,085 voluntarily-provided “unbundled” management earnings forecasts in 1,372 unique press releases during the 1997-2006 period, we find significant incremental pricing effects for linguistic sentiment included in management forecast press releases. Our setting is distinct from those examined in prior linguistic studies in that forecasts are voluntarily issued, incentive-drive...

Background  Bad news in the context of health care has been broadly defined as significant information that negatively alters people's perceptions of the present or future. Effectively delivering bad news (DBN) in the setting of the emergency department requires excellent communication skills. Evidence shows that bad news is frequently given inadequately. Studies show that trainees need to devo...

The present study evaluated the perceptions and practice of 92 final year pediatric residents with regard to breaking bad news. Only 16% of residents had received any training in communication skills. Majority (65%) of the residents were not comfortable while breaking bad news.

We analyze a game of persuasion which combines information acquisition and adverse selection. The sender can credibly transmit any information she gathers but cannot directly reveal her type to the receiver. Her payoff depends both on the news content and her perceived ability. We show that a sanitization equilibrium in which the sender reveals good news and conceals bad news prevails for mild ...

" Ladies and gentleman, this is your captain speaking. I have some good news and I have some bad news. The good news is, that we have a very strong tail wind, and we are doing one thousand four hundred miles per hour over land. The bad news is, that all of our navigation instruments are out, and we don't know where we are, and we don't know where we are going. " Joseph Weizenbaum " Rebel at Wor...

Clinicians often inject good news into bad news delivery, and they do so for a variety of reasons. We present a framework that draws from research in the fields of health and social psychology to shed light on situations in which clinicians add superfluous good news into bad news conversations in an effort to ease the conversation or mitigate patients' distress, a broad strategy we refer to as ...