Breaking bad news to cancer patients in times of COVID-19.
Breaking bad news
COVID-19
Social distancing
Journal
Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer
ISSN: 1433-7339
Titre abrégé: Support Care Cancer
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9302957
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2021
Aug 2021
Historique:
received:
18
02
2021
accepted:
18
03
2021
pubmed:
31
3
2021
medline:
7
7
2021
entrez:
30
3
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Breaking bad news is a mandatory provision in the professional life of nearly every physician. One of its most frequent occasions is the diagnosis of malignancy. Responding to the recipients' emotions is a critical issue in the delivery of unsettling information, and has an impact on the patient's trust in the treating physician, adjustment to illness and ultimately treatment. Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, several measures of social distancing and isolation have been introduced to our clinical setting. In the wake of these restrictions, it is important to reexamine existing communication guidelines to determine their applicability to face-to-face counseling in the context of social distancing, as well as to new communication technologies, such as telemedicine. We address these issues and discuss strategies to convey bad news the most empathetic and comprehensible way possible.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33782762
doi: 10.1007/s00520-021-06167-z
pii: 10.1007/s00520-021-06167-z
pmc: PMC8006640
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
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