Aware that his pancreatic cancer had metastasized to his liver, Mr B and his adult son and
daughter traveled several hundred miles to see an oncologist at a regional comprehensive …

Purpose Health providers’ implicit racial bias negatively affects communication and patient
reactions to many medical interactions. However, its effects on racially discordant oncology …

OBJECTIVE: To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies reporting
associations between patients’ and clinicians’ nonverbal communication during real clinical …

Researchers and medical educators in the area of physician-patient communication
encourage physicians to elicit patient narratives during medical encounters to facilitate data …

Patient-centered and family-centered care (PFCC) as an approach to care in adult and pediatric
settings has been endorsed by major professional organizations, including the Institute …

Objective: Communicating bad news about a child’s illness is a difficult task commonly faced
by intensive care physicians. Greater understanding of parents’ scope of experiences with …

Previous research has investigated patient question asking in clinical settings as a strategy
of information seeking and as an indicator of the level of active patient participation in the …

Background Clinical trials that study cancer are essential for testing the safety and effectiveness
of promising treatments, but most people with cancer never enroll in a clinical trial — a …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate parents’ perspectives on the desirability, content, and conditions
of a physician-parent conference after their child’s death in the pediatric intensive care unit (…

PURPOSE Mindfulness (ie, purposeful and nonjudgmental attentiveness to one’s own
experience, thoughts, and feelings) is associated with physician well-being. We sought to assess …