Background Empathic patient-centred care is central to high quality health encounters. The
Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) Measure is a patient-rated experience …

Changes in medical curricula have led to a shift of focus in medical education. The goal was
to implement a more practical approach to teaching and thereby create better doctors …

OBJECTIVE: This study investigated whether doctors' attire influences the perception of
empathy in the patient–doctor relationship during a therapeutic encounter. METHODS: A …

OBJECTIVE: To measure acupuncture patients' perceptions of practitioner empathy at the
initial consultation and its relationship with patient enablement, and prospectively reported …

Abstract Evaluation of telemedicine, including videoconferencing, specifically focused on
primary care, has demonstrated quality as good as in-person care, reduced cost, elimination …

Abstract Dialogue systems, from Virtual Personal Assistants such as Siri, Cortana, and Alexa
to state-of-the-art systems such as BlenderBot3 and ChatGPT, are already widely available …

PURPOSE The influence of multimorbidity on the clinical encounter is poorly understood,
especially in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation where burdensome multimorbidity is …

Introduction We assessed patients' perceptions of physician empathy during telemedicine
consultations as compared to in-person consultations during clinical encounters for acute …

Objective The objective was to describe the development and assess evidence of the
validity of a patient-reported scale measuring the interpersonal quality of contraceptive …

Objective: To relate prospectively initial consultation characteristics—length, empathy, and
patient enablement—with perceived health changes in patients going to the Glasgow …