Negotiating the equivocality of palliative care: a grounded theory of team communicative processes in inpatient medicine.

Related Articles Negotiating the equivocality of palliative care: a grounded theory of team communicative processes in inpatient medicine. Health Commun. 2016;31(5):536-43 Authors: Ledford CJ, Canzona MR, Cafferty LA, Kalish VB Abstract In the majority of U.S. hospitals, inpatient medicine teams make palliative care decisions in the absence of a formalized palliative system. Using a grounded theory approach, interviews with inpatient team members were systematically analyzed to uncover how participants conceptualize palliative care and how they regard the communicative structures that underlie its delivery. During analysis, Weick’s model of organizing emerged as a framework that fit the data. The 39 participant…
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