Vail, Laura, Sandhu, Harbinder, Fisher, Joanne D., Cooke, Heather, Dale, Jeremy, 1958- and Barnett, M. (Mandy). (2011) Hospital consultants breaking bad news with simulated patients : an analysis of communication using the Roter Interaction Analysis System. Patient Education and Counseling, Vol.83 (No.2). pp. 185-194. ISSN 0738-3991

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Abstract

Objective: To explore how experienced clinicians from wide ranging specialities deliver bad news, and to investigate the relationship between physician characteristics and patient centredness. Methods: Consultations involving 46 hospital consultants from 22 different specialties were coded using the Roter Interaction Analysis System. Results: Consultants mainly focussed upon providing biomedical information and did not discuss lifestyle and psychosocial issues frequently. Doctor gender, age, place of qualification, and speciality were not significantly related to patient centredness. Conclusion: Hospital consultants from wide ranging specialities tend to adopt a disease-centred approach when delivering bad news. Consultant characteristics had little impact upon patient centredness. Further large-scale studies are needed to examine the effect of doctor characteristics on behaviour during breaking bad news consultations. Practice implications: It is possible to observe breaking bad news encounters by video-recording interactions between clinicians and simulated patients. Future training programmes should focus on increasing patient-centred behaviours which include actively involving patients in the consultation, initiating psychosocial discussion, and providing patients with opportunities to ask questions.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Divisions:	Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Education Development and Research Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Hospital consultants -- Evaluation, Bad news, Physician and patient, Simulated patients
Journal or Publication Title:	Patient Education and Counseling
Publisher:	Elsevier Ireland Ltd
ISSN:	0738-3991
Date:	May 2011
Volume:	Vol.83
Number:	No.2
Page Range:	pp. 185-194
Identification Number:	10.1016/j.pec.2010.05.016
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder:	NHS Executive West Midlands
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/37258

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