Breaking bad news to a prospective cross-sectional sample of patients’ relatives in a Nigerian neurosurgical service

Objectives: Breaking of medical bad news is anecdotally deemed culturally unacceptable, even intolerable, to native Africans. We explored this hypothesis among a cohort of relatives of patients who had difficult neurosurgical diagnoses in an indigenous practice. Materials and Methods: A semi-structu...

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Main Authors: Amos Olufemi Adeleye, Akinola A. Fatiregun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2013.00110/full