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Objectives: To explore communication strategies intensive care clinicians and patients' family members prefer for expressing empathy during family-clinician conversations.
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Medical Assistance in Dying: A Review of Canadian Health Authority Policy Documents.
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Persons with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI) make up a vulnerable group within mental healthcare and society. Not only do they suffer from long-term, serious psychiatric disorders; they often also experience considerable problems in their psychosocial functioning. Research has disclosed that the care needs of this target group are complex, and that the life expectancy of these persons is significantly lower than in the general population.
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