Background: Practitioners who deliver enhanced empathy may improve patient satisfaction
with care. Patient satisfaction is associated with positive patient outcomes ranging from …

Background Physician empathy is both theoretically and empirically critical to patient health,
but research indicates that empathy declines throughout medical school and is lower than …

Background Empathy as a characteristic of patient–physician communication in both
general practice and clinical care is considered to be the backbone of the patient–physician …

Objective To summarize the predictors and outcomes of empathy by health care personnel,
methods used to study their empathy, and the effectiveness of interventions targeting their …

Background: Although clinical empathy—the ability of a physician to understand a patient's
illness experience, communicate this understanding and act collaboratively to create a …

Background Empathy in primary care settings has been linked to improved health outcomes.
However, the operationalisation of empathy differs between studies, and, to date, no study …

Background A growing body of evidence suggests that healthcare practitioners who
enhance how they express empathy can improve patient health, and reduce medico-legal …

OBJECTIVE: There is a growing amount of empirical research on empathy in medicine. This
critical review assesses methodological limitations in this body of research that have not …

Objectives: Clinical empathy is an important predictor of patient outcomes. Several factors
affect physician's empathy and client perceptions. We aimed to assess the association …

Objective To offer a critique of empathy concept usage in healthcare and medical education
research. Methods Analysis of current usage and suggestions for authors and researchers …