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ArticleQualitative health research2023

Physicians' Lived Experience of Breaking Bad News in Clinical Practice: Five Essentials of a Relational Process.

Mattias Tranberg, Eva M Brodin

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Article in Qualitative health research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Mattias TranbergDepartment of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-9655-2672
Eva M BrodinDepartment of Educational Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop deeper knowledge about physicians' lived experiences of breaking bad news by identifying their common meanings and interrelatedness along with their potential alignment with process-oriented and relational aspects. Based on the methodology of descriptive phenomenology, in-depth interviews were conducted with 22 physicians from a wide variety of specialties. The participants were invited to freely reflect upon their experiences of breaking bad news by describing situations that had worked well and less well. Results showed that breaking bad news was fundamentally experienced as a

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PhysiciansCommunicationHumansPhysician-Patient RelationsTruth Disclosurecommunicationpatientsphenomenologyphysiciansserious illness

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PMID37793062
PMCPMC10666517

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