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GERONTOLOGY & GERIATRICS EDUCATION
Volume 32, Issue 2, Pages 152-163Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02701960.2011.572051
Keywords
end-of-life; communications skills; physician training
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- The New York Community Trust
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The palliative medicine literature consistently documents that physicians are poorly prepared to help patients experience a good death and are often unaware of their ill patients' preferences for end-of-life care. The present study, enrolling 150 physicians, sought to improve their communication skills for end-of-life care. We found significant attitudinal changes and a greater degree of self-rated competence in delivering end-of-life care for those in the intervention group. This study used a novel approach to train physicians to be better equipped to conduct difficult goals of care conversations with patients and their families at end-of-life.
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