Study setting
psychiatric, tumour
SECONDARY, TUMOUR
The current study is a preplanned secondary analysis of the BEDSIDE-OUTSIDE trialThis analysis studied potential risk factors associated with sensitive topics, the association of sensitive topics with different outcomes and potential risk factors for low or high levels of patient satisfaction with care. We also provided a qualitative overview of sensitive topic discussions during ward rounds. Because, to our knowledge, there is no well accepted definition of sensitive topics, we defined ‘sensitive topics’ based on the clinical experience of the physician–researcher team and by reviewing previous literature. Sensitive topics were coded prospectively as a situation where at least one of the following topics was discussed with the patient during the ward round: medical uncertainty, psychiatric comorbidities, tumour diagnosis, social issues, non-adherence, previous conflicts between patient and treating team and treatment failure.