The source says this was a "bad public consultation", presumably because it did not deliver the answer the source wanted.
Participants were given the choice of participating immediately, or within 1 week after the initial bad news consultation.
Initially 16 categories were identified, which were then rearranged/re-coded under three major themes: patients' definitions of good doctors and consultations, bad doctors and consultations, and expectations/outcomes of the consultations.
Although patients with cancer are often accompanied by a relative during breaking bad news (BBN) consultations, little is known regarding the efficacy of training programmes designed to teach residents the communication skills needed to break bad news in a triadic consultation.
Frequently, a patient's relatives, who may also represent the patient's primary caregivers, accompany a patient to breaking bad news (BBN) consultations in order to provide support, or to serve as the patient's advocate (Eggly et al, 2006a; Figg et al, 2010).
In teaching a communication protocol like bad news, a consultation, a negotiation, a conflict and the like, communication experts want to precisely control every utterance of a virtual character.
A simulated patient breaking bad news (BBN) consultation was audiotaped at baseline and after training in the training group and 8 months after baseline in the waiting-list group.
Our qualitative analysis of patients' reaction to letters [ 7] showed that some patients were initially anxious about getting a letter from their consultation in a family medicine office, as they are used to often getting bad news from specialists' consultations of discharge letters from hospitals.
Video-taped recordings of simulated consultations breaking bad news were independently assessed by three raters using the schedule and compared to three experts who gave global ratings.
