Communicating sad, bad, and difficult news in medicine

SPIKES—A Six-Step Protocol for Delivering Bad News: Application to the Patient with Cancer

Walter F. Baile, Robert Buckman, Renato Lenzi et al. · The Oncologist · 2000 · 3K citations · Full text

Nursing, Medical Education, Oncology +17

Confidential inquiry into quality of care before admission to intensive care

P. McQuillan, S. Pilkington, Alison L. Allan et al. · BMJ · 1998 · 1.5K citations · Full text

Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Acute Care Medicine +13

Extent and determinants of error in doctors' prognoses in terminally ill patients: prospective cohort study Commentary: Why do doctors overestimate? Commentary: Prognoses should be based on proved indices not intuition

Nicholas A. Christakis · BMJ · 2000 · 1.4K citations · Full text

Nursing, Internal Medicine, Palliative Care +13

Mental health of hospital consultants: the effects of stress and satisfaction at work

Antonio J. Ramírez, Jonathon J. Graham, Martin Richards et al. · The Lancet · 1996 · 960 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Psychology, Hospital Administration +12

Efficacy of a Cancer Research UK communication skills training model for oncologists: a randomised controlled trial

Lesley Fallowfield, Valerie Jenkins, Vernon T. Farewell et al. · The Lancet · 2002 · 864 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Communication, Oncology +11