ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
Behavioral Patterns in Breaking Bad News Communication: An Ethnographic Study with Hematologists.
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- The protective role of HCWs communication for the distress of newly diagnosed people with leukemia and lymphoma.PEC innovation · 2025Article
- More than "hematology": a qualitative study on the experience of hematologists treating people with blood cancer in Greece.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Article
- Qualitative Analysis of the Roles of Physicians and Nurses in Providing Decision Support to Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Leukemia and Lymphoma.Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer CenterArticle
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Abstract
Hematologists adequately disclosing bad news is a critical point precluding patient-centered communication. Specific courses on communication for hematologists seem to be rare, as well as research exploring their communicative skills and patterns. We aim at describing the hematologists' behavior during difficult conversations to account for behavioral patterns in communication and provide new insights regarding teaching skills to communicate bad news. We employed a focused visual ethnography to answer the following research: "what are hematologists' behavioral patterns in communicating bad news to patients and families?" The collected data included (1) video recordings, (2) observational field notes, (3) interviews with hematologists. The analysis highlighted four patterns: (1) a technical-defensive pattern, (2) an authoritative pattern, (3) a relational-recursive pattern, and (4) a compassionate sharing pattern. Hematologists seem to have difficulty expressing compassionate caring and empathetic comprehension. Communication skills remain a challenge for hematologists. The study of behavioral patterns can lead to increasingly targeted training interventions for this specific learner population.
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