Truth Disclosure
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Trust, power, and vulnerability: a discourse on helping in nursing.

29 Nov 2009 This article uses philosophical inquiry to present the relationship between the helping role in nursing and the concept of trust essential to it. It characterizes helping as the moral center of the nurse-patient relationship and discusses how ... Read more...

Supporting children of parents who are dying.

29 Nov 2009 Nurses, parents and other family members tend to feel ill equipped when talking to children about a parent's impending death. Adults often feel the need to protect children from the reality of a parent's imminent death. However, research indicates ... Read more...

Doctors' stress responses and poor communication performance in simulated bad-news consultations.

30 Oct 2009 PURPOSE: No studies have previously evaluated factors associated with high stress levels and poor communication performance in breaking bad news (BBN) consultations. This study determined factors that were most strongly related to doctors' stress ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Truth Disclosure'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Trust, power, and vulnerability: a discourse on helping in nursing. 29 Nov 2009
• Supporting children of parents who are dying. 29 Nov 2009
• President's page: who owns what or whom? Nov 2009
• Doctors' stress responses and poor communication performance in simulated bad-news consultations. 30 Oct 2009
• Doctors without metaphors. 30 Oct 2009
• Practice parameter update: The care of the patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: multidisciplinary care, symptom management, and cognitive/behavioral impairment (an evidence-based review): report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. 11 Oct 2009
• Comprehensive strategy towards delivering better communications and better health care to non-English speaking New Zealanders? 7 Oct 2009
• The power of apology. 7 Oct 2009
• Colon cancer screening practices and disclosure after receipt of positive or inconclusive genetic test results for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer. 13 Sep 2009
• Sugar-coaters and straight talkers: communicating about developmental delays in primary care. 12 Sep 2009
• [Taboos lead to social withdrawal and isolation. Do you know which of your patients wear diapers?] 8 Sep 2009
• Prenatal consultation with a neonatologist for congenital anomalies: parental perceptions. 5 Sep 2009
• Drive this bus into a ditch. What the country really needs right now is a large dose of straight talk. 5 Sep 2009
• The five biggest lies in the health care debate. 5 Sep 2009
• Poultry, politics, and antibiotic resistance. 3 Sep 2009
• When it comes to HIV infection, some are more equal than others. 30 Aug 2009
• Government-scripted consent: when medical ethics and law collide. 30 Aug 2009
• Self disclosure. How to manage the risk of Medicare fraud and abuse. 30 Aug 2009
• [How to tell a patient the truth?--a case report from a psycho-oncology outpatient clinic] 30 Aug 2009
• Disclosing harmful medical errors to patients: tackling three tough cases. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Truth Disclosure'

Definition: Truthful revealing of information, specifically when the information disclosed is likely to be psychologically painful ("bad news") to the recipient (e.g., revelation to a patient or a patient's family of the patient's diagnosis or prognosis) or embarrassing to the teller (e.g., revelation of medical errors).

Descriptor UI: D014342

Alternative terms: Truth Disclosure; Disclosures, Truth; Truth Disclosures; Disclosure, Truth;

Related Mesh Headings: Access to Information; Patient Rights;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethics;

Tree Number: F01.145.209.259.800;

History Note: 78

Technical Notes: DISCLOSURE is also available