Giving Bad News.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Fetal death: Expert consensus of the French College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2025
   Guideline
2. Reflecting on 25 years of SPIKES: bad news communication in our modern era.The oncologist · 2026
   Article
3. A Pilot Test of an AI Voice-Driven Simulation With Feedback for Medical Students to Practice Discussing Diagnostic Mammogram Results With Patients.Cureus · 2025
   Article
4. Design and Validation of an Instrument to Measure the Communication of Bad News for Nurses.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025
   Article
5. Breaking Bad News During Prenatal Screening: The Role of Professional Obstetricians and Midwives in Greece.Cureus · 2024
   Article
6. Teaching breaking bad news in a gyneco-oncological setting: a feasibility study implementing the SPIKES framework for undergraduate medical students.BMC medical education · 2024
   Article
7. The barriers dentists face to communicate cancer diagnosis: self-assessment based on SPIKES protocol.Medicina oral, patologia oral y cirugia bucal · 2023
   Observational
8. Preventive and Therapeutic Mental Health Care after the Earthquake- Expert Opinion from the Psychiatric Association of Turkey.Turk psikiyatri dergisi = Turkish journal of psychiatry · 2023
   Review
9. Communication of medical errors in a simulated clinical scenario. Experience with a pediatric residency group.Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo · 2023
   Article
10. Communicating with patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: can we do it better?ERJ open research · 2022
    Review
11. Delivering Bad News in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Proposal of Specific Technique ALS ALLOW.Neurology. Clinical practice · 2021
    Review
12. Interprofessional Communication Team for Caregivers of Patients Hospitalized in the COVID-19 Wards: Results From an Italian Experience.Frontiers in medicine · 2021
    Article
13. Perspectives of Protocol Based Breaking Bad News among Medical Patients and Physicians in a Teaching Hospital, Ethiopia.Ethiopian journal of health sciences · 2020
    Article
14. Patients' illness narratives-From being healthy to living with incurable cancer: Encounters with doctors through the disease trajectory.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2020
    Article
15. Design and Validation of a Questionnaire on Communicating Bad News in Nursing: A Pilot Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
    Article
16. Breaking Bad News: A Study on Formal Training in a High-Risk Obstetrics Setting.Palliative medicine reports · 2020
    Article
17. A Qualitative Study of Medical Oncologists' Experiences of Their Profession and Workforce Sustainability.PloS one · 2016
    Article

Corrections and comments

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  Confronting Therapeutic Failure: A Conversation Guide.2015

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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