The current article is an integrative and analytical literature review on the concept and
meaning of empathy in health and social care professionals. Empathy, ie, the ability to …

Background: High-quality care for seriously ill patients aligns treatment with their goals and
values. Failure to achieve “goal-concordant” care is a medical error that can harm patients …

Introduction: The importance of content validity in the instrument psychometric and its
relevance with reliability, have made it an essential step in the instrument development. This …

The concept of empathy has received a lot of attention in the past few decades in public
media, academia, national and international politics, arts, ethics, health professions …

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

Objectives Palliative care is an interprofessional specialty as well as an approach to care by
all clinicians caring for patients with serious and complex illness. Unlike hospice, palliative …

Patients with advanced incurable cancer face complex physical, psychological, social, and
spiritual consequences of disease and its treatment. Care for these patients should include …

BACKGROUND Body image is a critical psychosocial issue for patients with cancer because
they often undergo significant changes to appearance and functioning. The primary purpose …

Most clinicians currently in practice did not receive the evidence‐based communication
skills training they need to provide high‐quality communication for seriously ill older adults …

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 …