Effect of communication skills training for residents and nurse practitioners on quality of communication with patients with serious illness: a randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Communication about end-of-life care is a core clinical skill. Simulation-based training improves skill acquisition, but effects on patient-reported outcomes are unknown.

Objective

To assess the effects of a communication skills intervention for internal medicine and nurse practitioner trainees on patient- and family-reported outcomes.

Design, setting, and participants

Randomized trial conducted with 391 internal medicine and 81 nurse practitioner trainees between 2007 and 2013 at the University of Washington and Medical University of South Carolina.

Intervention

Participants were randomized to an 8-session, simulation-based, communication skills intervention (N = 232) or usual education (N = 240).

Main outcomes and measures

Primary outcome wa

SUBMITTER: Curtis JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4310457 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature