Harmful communication behaviors in cancer care: A systematic review of patients and family caregivers perspectives

Objective: Issues regarding clinician communication remain an important source of complaints within healthcare. This systematic review aims to determine cancer patients' and their family caregivers' views on which clinicians' communication behaviors can harm (i.e. eliciting negative feelings/consequences for patients/family caregivers)....

Author Correction: Possible alleviation of symptoms and side effects through clinicians’ nocebo information and empathy in an experimental video vignette study (Scientific Reports, (2022), 12, 1, (16112), 10.1038/s41598-022-19729-w)

Correction to: Scientific Reports, published online 27 September 2022 The original version of this Article contained errors in the dataset, where one participant was incorrectly labelled as Western immigrant and should have been labelled as Native Dutch. Another participant was incorrectly labelled as Western immigrant and should have been...

Possible alleviation of symptoms and side effects through clinicians' nocebo information and empathy in an experimental video vignette study

To alleviate anti-cancer treatment burden in advanced breast cancer, patient-clinician communication strategies based on nocebo-effect mechanisms are promising. We assessed distinct/combined effects on psychological outcomes (e.g. anxiety; main outcome) and side-effect expectations of (1) nocebo information about the (non)pharmacological origin...