Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 at a hospice: terminated after the implementation of enhanced aerosol infection control measures.

Outbreaks of COVID-19 in hospices for palliative care patients pose a unique and difficult situation. Staff, relatives and patients may be possible sources and recipients of infection. We present an outbreak of COVID-19 in a hospice setting, during the UK's first pandemic wave.

Addressing possible problems with patients' expectations, plans and decisions for the future: One strategy used by experienced clinicians in advance care planning conversations.

Objective: Giving terminally ill people opportunities to participate in advance care planning involves tensions between: endorsing and supporting patients' expectations, plans and decisions, and addressing how realistic these are. The latter risks exerting undue pressure to change plans; undermining autonomy; jeopardising therapeutic relationships. Our objective is to describe how experienced hospice doctors raise potential/actual problems with patients' expectations, plans or decisions.

Is it acceptable to video-record palliative care consultations for research and training purposes? A qualitative interview study exploring the views of hospice patients, carers and clinical staff.

Background: Research using video recordings can advance understanding of healthcare communication and improve care, but making and using video recordings carries risks.

Aim: To explore views of hospice patients, carers and clinical staff about whether videoing patient-doctor consultations is acceptable for research and training purposes.

Design: We used semi-structured group and individual interviews to gather hospice patients, carers and clinical staff views.

Engaging Terminally Ill Patients in End of Life Talk: How Experienced Palliative Medicine Doctors Navigate the Dilemma of Promoting Discussions about Dying.

Objective: To examine how palliative medicine doctors engage patients in end-of-life (hereon, EoL) talk. To examine whether the practice of "eliciting and responding to cues", which has been widely advocated in the EoL care literature, promotes EoL talk.

Design: Conversation analysis of video- and audio-recorded consultations.

Acceptability and design of video-based research on healthcare communication: Evidence and recommendations.

Objectives: To contribute to understandings about acceptability and risks entailed in video-based research on healthcare communication. To generate recommendations for non-covert video-based research on healthcare communication - with a focus on maximising its acceptability to participants, and managing and reducing its risks.

Methods: A literature review and synthesis of (a) empirical research on participant acceptability and risks of video recording; (b) regulations of professional and governmental bodies; (c) reviews and commentaries; (d) guidance and recommendations.