How to talk about dying? The development of an evidence-based model for communication with patients in their last days of life and their family caregivers

• Main Authors: Sibylle J. Felber (Author), Sofia C. Zambrano (Author), Tommaso Guffi (Author), Felix M. Schmitz (Author), Beate G. Brem (Author), Kai P. Schnabel (Author), Sissel Guttormsen (Author), Steffen Eychmüller (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2024-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: To help healthcare professionals (HCP) act with more confidence when communicating about approaching death, we sought to develop a communication model for HCP to facilitate conversations with dying patients and family caregivers (FC) in nonemergency situations. Methods: We used a four-pha...