Journal of pain and symptom management
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Aug 2021
End-of-life care in the time of COVID-19: Communication matters more than ever.
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in visitation restrictions across most health care settings, necessitating the use of remote communication to facilitate communication among families, patients and health care teams. ⋯ Effective remote communication with the patient and the health care team was associated with significantly better ratings of the overall experience of end-of-life care by bereaved family members. Our findings offer timely insights into the importance of remote communication strategies.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Aug 2021
Physicians' Perceptions and Suggestions for the Adaptation of a US-based Serious Illness Communication Training in a non-US Culture: A Qualitative Study.
US-based serious illness communication training pedagogy has not been well studied outside of the United States. ⋯ Our study found empirical evidence that the VitalTalk pedagogy is perceived to be novel and beneficial in a non-US cultural setting. Cultural adaptations in expression and response to emotion may be required to maximize its efficacy in Japan. To meet the needs of clinical practice in Japan, further studies are needed to empirically test the suggested refinements for the VitalTalk pedagogy.