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Serious news communication between clinicians and parents impacts parents' experiences, decision-making, and clinical care for critically ill neonates
Kukora S, Krenz C, DeVries R, Spector-Bagdady K · Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics · 2024
Physicians often disclose serious news with patients and families; however, many clinicians experience anxiety around these conversations.1 Fear of their patients' and their own emotional reactions may cause providers to avoid these conversations rather than engage with empathy.1 Poor communication in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) when an infant is critically ill or dies can have deleterious effects on decision-making and long-term parental coping.2 Provision of information is imperative to shared decision-making about clinical therapies or care goals.3 Failure to effectively convey information could lead to decisions that do not align with parents' values, associated with long-term grief, decisional conflict, and regret.4, 5 Additionally, inability of clinicians to listen and engage with parents can lead to mistrust in the care team.3, 6 Parents recall in detail how serious news is delivered even years after hospitalisation,7 and their perceptions of these interactions impact their well-being.4, 7 Despite this, few studies have investigated parents' perspectives on serious news communication in the NICU. In this study, we sought to better characterise the communication problems parents of critically ill infants perceive in the antenatal and neonatal period around serious news conversations and to identify potential clinical care consequences arising from these communication issues...
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