Category Archive for: "compassion"

Sympathy, empathy, and compassion: A grounded theory study of palliative care patients’ understandings, experiences, and preferences

December 6, 2017 compassion

BACKGROUND: Compassion is considered an essential element in quality patient care. One of the conceptual challenges in healthcare literature is that compassion is often confused with sympathy and [...]
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Measuring Compassion in Healthcare: A Comprehensive and Critical Review

December 6, 2017 compassion, measurement

BACKGROUND: There is international concern about the lack of compassion in healthcare systems. A valid and reliable tool for measuring compassion in healthcare systems and educational [...]
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Compassion training in healthcare: what are patients’ perspectives on training healthcare providers?

December 6, 2017 compassion, patient experience

Background: The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate advanced cancer patients’ perspectives on the importance, feasibility, teaching methods, and issues associated with training [...]
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Compassion in health care: An empirical model

December 6, 2017 compassion

CONTEXT: Compassion is frequently referenced as a hallmark of quality care by patients, health care providers, health care administrators, and policy makers. Despite its putative centrality, [...]
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Compassion: a scoping review of the healthcare literature

December 6, 2017 compassion

Background: Recent concerns about suboptimal patient care and a lack of compassion have prompted policymakers to question the preparedness of clinicians for the challenging environment in which [...]
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