Prognostic Communication Between Oncologists and Parents of Children With Advanced Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Parents of children with cancer perceive deficits in quality of prognostic communication. How oncologists disclose information about disease progression and incurability and how prognostic communication impacts parental understanding of prognosis are poorly understood. In this study, we aimed to (1) characterize communication strategies used by pediatric oncologists to share prognostic information across a child's advancing illness course and (2) explore relationships between different communication approaches and concordance of oncologist-parent prognostic understanding.

Methods

In this prospective, longitudinal, mixed-methods study, serial disease reevaluation conversations were audio recorded across an advancing illness course for children with c

SUBMITTER: Kaye EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8503785 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature