Selected peer-reviewed journal articles on how to break bad news
Dosanjh, S., Barnes, J., & Bhandari, M. (2001). Barriers to breaking bad news among medical and surgical residents. Medical education, 35(3), 197-205. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11260440
Eid, A., Petty, M., Hutchins, L., & Thompson, R. (2009). “Breaking bad news”: Standardized patient intervention improves communication skills for hematology-oncology fellows and advanced practice nurses. Journal of Cancer Education, 24(2), 154-159. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19431034
Ranjan, P., Kumari, A., & Chakrawarty, A. (2015). How can Doctors Improve their Communication Skills?. Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR, 9(3), JE01-4. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4413084/
Rosenbaum, M. E., Ferguson, K. J., & Lobas, J. G. (2004). Teaching medical students and residents skills for delivering bad news: A review of strategies. Academic medicine, 79(2), 107-117. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14744709
Seifart, C., Hofmann, M., Bär, T., Riera Knorrenschild, J., Seifart, U., & Rief, W. (2014). Breaking bad news–what patients want and what they get: evaluating the SPIKES protocol in Germany. Annals of oncology, 25(3), 707-711. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24504443
Whitney, S. N., McCullough, L. B., Frugé, E., McGuire, A. L., & Volk, R. J. (2008). Beyond breaking bad news: the roles of hope and hopefulness. Cancer, 113(2), 442-445. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18484591