"Pain talk" in hospice and palliative care team meetings: an ethnography.

Goldsmiths College University of London Building reputation: the significance of pain talk in hospice and palliative care team meetings

Barriers to pain management: caregiver perceptions and pain talk by hospice interdisciplinary teams.

As patients are cared for in their homes by family caregivers, several challenges arise in effective pain and symptom management. Despite hospice's reputation as the gold standard for terminal care, there is still a need to improve pain management practices, including challenges that caregivers face, related to pain assessment, reluctance and fear of administering medication, noncompliance with...

Sharing atrocity stories in hospice: A study of niceness message strategies in interdisciplinary team meetings.

The telling of atrocity stories offers therapeutic benefits to healthcare providers. Transcripts of hospice interdisciplinary team (IDT) meetings were used to analyze strategies for telling atrocity stories in the performance of symbiotic niceness through criticism. Symbiotic niceness draws upon niceness messages to establish reciprocal niceness by others in order to facilitate emotional labor....

Caregiver involvement in hospice interdisciplinary team meetings: a case study.

Involving caregivers in hospice interdisciplinary team (IDT) meetings has been offered as a potential solution to caregivers' unmet communication needs. This case study details one caregiver's participation in her mother's hospice interdisciplinary team care planning meetings, both in person and via videophone technology. This preliminary case is offered as part of a larger National Cancer Inst...

Referring a patient and family to high-quality palliative care at the close of life: "We met a new personality... with this level of compassion and empathy".

Palliative care services are increasingly available to primary care physicians for both expert consultations and services to seriously ill patients. The United States now has more than 1400 hospital-based palliative care teams and more than 4700 hospice programs. We use an illustrative case of a palliative care hospitalization and intervention for a middle-aged man with severe pain from spinal ...