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This episode features Dr Joyce Chung and Weilin Chen (School of Nursing, The Hong\\xa0Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China).

What is already known about the topic:

• End-of-life communication can improve patients\\u2019 quality of life, ease the bereavement experience, raise care\\xa0satisfaction and reduce the utilisation of aggressive and expensive medical care.
• Healthcare professionals\\u2019 perceived barriers, such as fear of causing distress, impede the delivery of end-of-life\\xa0conversations in a professional, sensitive and appropriate manner.
• The communication strategies available to healthcare professionals for discussing end-of-life issues with terminally ill\\xa0patients and their families have not yet been systematically summarised.

What this paper adds:

• This review systematically examines, summarises and presents recommended end-of-life communication strategies\\xa0for healthcare professionals.
• It organises these communication strategies into seven themes that should be considered when delivering end-of-life\\xa0conversations.
• This review highlights that further research is needed to explore patients\\u2019 and families\\u2019 perspectives on healthcare\\xa0professionals\\u2019 end-of-life communication strategies; and available strategies in non-Anglo-Saxon countries.

Implications for practice, theory or policy:

• The valuable strategies outlined in this review will assist and support healthcare professionals when having end-of-life\\xa0conversations with their patients.
• Further training and education plans should be developed and implemented based on the study findings.
• Further research is needed to explore patients\\u2019 and their families\\u2019 experiences and views on end-of-life communication\\xa0strategies used by healthcare professionals; and practical strategies to use in non-Anglo-Saxon countries.

Full paper available from:\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02692163221133670

If you would like to record a podcast about your published (or accepted) Palliative\\xa0Medicine paper, please contact Dr Amara Nwosu:\\xa0
a.nwosu@lancaster.ac.uk