Patient education and counseling
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To explore how patients with advanced cancer, their families, and palliative care clinicians communicate about existential experience during palliative care conversations. ⋯ Clinicians can recognize that discussion of time, routines of daily life, and relationships in the clinical context may hold profound existential relevance in palliative care conversations. Understanding how patients and families talk about existential experience in conversation can create opportunities for clinicians to better meet these needs.