Open AccessDeath Notification: Someone Needs To Call the Family
Author(s) -
Rachel Ombres,
Lauren Montemorano,
Daniel M. Becker
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of palliative medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.986
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1096-6218
pISSN - 1557-7740
DOI - 10.1089/jpm.2016.0481
Subject(s) - medicine , grief , phone , affect (linguistics) , family medicine , phone call , medical emergency , nursing , psychology , psychiatry , linguistics , philosophy , communication
The death notification process can affect family grief and bereavement. It can also affect the well-being of involved physicians. There is no standardized process for making death notification phone calls. We assumed that residents are likely to be unprepared before and troubled after.
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