SPIKES-A six-step protocol for delivering bad news: application to the patient with cancer.
By W. Baile, R. Buckman, R. Lenzi, G. Glober, E. Beale, A. Kudelka. The Oncologist, 2000
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Subfields: General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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- Efficacy of communication skills training for giving bad news and discussing transitions to palliative care. (2007, background): “Sex Male 59 (51) Female 56 (49) Year in fellowship First 23 (20) Second 59 (51) Third 32 (28) Did not answer 1 (1) Ethnicity White 62 (54) Asian/Pacific Islander 20 (17) East Indian/Pakistani 19 (17) Hispanic/Latino 5 (4) African American 4 (3) Mixed ethnicity 2 (2) Other/did not answer 3 (3) Person”
- Clinical empathy as emotional labor in the patient-physician relationship. (2005, methodology): “In addition, research indicates insufficient training and education in compassion and emotional aspects of health care for various health professionals.(15,16) We believe that better understanding of empathy—and more importantly, framing the psychological and behavioral activities in this process as”
- Approaching Difficult Communication Tasks in Oncology 1 (2005, methodology): “In this case the strategy encompasses a series of six distinct communication steps, that can be summarized using the mnemonic SPIKES.(38) This protocol includes recommendations endorsed by practitioners and patients (Table 2).”
- Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis (2014, background): “A survey of oncologists found that less than 10 percent reported formal training in breaking bad news and only 32 percent had the opportunity during training to regularly observe other clinicians break bad news to patients (Baile et al., 2000).”
- Doctor-patient communication: a review. (2010, background): “For example, in the 1950s to 1970s, most doctors considered it inhumane and detrimental to patients to disclose bad news because of the bleak treatment prospect for cancers.(11,12) The medical model has more recently evolved from paternalism to individualism.”
- Breaking bad news (2001, methodology): “The following recommendations are patterned after Rabow and McPhee’s ABCDE mnemonic, with modification and additional material from other sources.(16-21) Although specific situations may preclude carrying out many of these suggestions, the recommendations are intended to serve as a general guide and”