Family Members' Perceptions of Caregiver-Centered Communication with Hospice Interdisciplinary Teams: Relationship to Caregiver Wellbeing.

Objective: Investigators sought to determine how family caregivers' psychological and physical wellbeing influenced their perceptions of communication with hospice providers.

Methods: Researchers conducted a secondary analysis of quantitative data generated during two multisite randomized clinical trials of supportive interventions for hospice family caregivers. Caregivers' (N = 525) self-reported anxious symptoms, depressive symptoms, physical quality of life, and perceptions of communication with hospice providers were analyzed via a series of linear models that included demographic and contextual controls.

Skip that repeat DXA scan in these postmenopausal women.

Repeat bone density measurement offers no advantage in predicting fracture risk in postmenopausal women who do not have osteoporosis.