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Breaking bad news to a prospective cross-sectional sample of patients' relatives in a nigerian neurosurgical service.

Front Neurol · 2013 · PMC3733000 · PMID 23935592

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nearly significantp = 0.06so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)
But a nearly significant greater proportion of patients’ relatives (15 vs 5%, p = 0.06) would rather be the only ones to be told the patients’ bad news.

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