“If it’s the time, it’s the time”: Existential communication in naturally-occurring palliative care conversations with individuals with advanced cancer, their families, and clinicians
Highlights
- We analyzed naturally-occurring inpatient palliative care conversations.
- Existential communication is pervasive and varied in palliative care conversations
- Patients, families, and clinicians talk about time, the self, and connectedness.
- Findings help develop a lexicon for everyday existential communication.
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