Posts Tagged ‘bad news’
Giving bad news
Posted on: January 5, 2015
Recently we had experience in giving the diagnosis of Downs Syndrome in less than ideal circumstances, in particular we had a delay in a confirmed diagnosis. On a recent ward round I asked Mike for literature on experience in giving bad news particularly in DS. He supplied a review from Pediatrics 2009 (PDF at pediatrics-2009) on delivering news of Down Syndrome postnatally and a more general review from Clinical Pediatrics (PDF at Clin-ped-2010) in 2010. I hope you find them helpful.
Submitted by Mike Linney
References.
“Postnatal Diagnosis of Down Syndrome: Synthesis of the Evidence on How Best to Deliver the News” Skotko B, Capone GT, Kishnani PS. Pediatrics 2009 124(4); e751-758
“What do we know about giving bad news: a review.” Harrison ME & Walling A. Clinical Pediatrics 2010 49(7); 619-626.
The PDFs will be taken down after a fortnight. If you want to read them after this time, please contact the Worthing or Chichester libraries at library.worthing@wsht.nhs.uk or dunhill.library@wsht.nhs.uk
Breaking bad news
Posted on: July 11, 2012
This paper presents the results of a survey of paediatric cardiologists, involving taped interviews. It discusses how they handle the situations and what support and training they felt they and more junior colleagues needed. Do you agree with their conclusions?
Reference: Birkeland, A-L and others. Breaking bad news: an interview study of paediatric cardiologists
Cardiology in the Young (2011), 21, 286–291
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