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Interventions to cultivate physician empathy: a systematic review

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Education, October 2014
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Title
Interventions to cultivate physician empathy: a systematic review
Published in
BMC Medical Education, October 2014
DOI 10.1186/1472-6920-14-219
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Authors

Zak Kelm, James Womer, Jennifer K Walter, Chris Feudtner

Abstract

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 physicians. In this paper, we synthesize the published literature regarding interventions that were quantitatively evaluated to detect changes in empathy among medical students, residents, fellows and physicians.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 <1%
France 2 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Thailand 1 <1%
Unknown 511 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 59 11%
Student > Bachelor 59 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 55 11%
Researcher 49 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 49 9%
Other 128 25%
Unknown 123 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 170 33%
Psychology 81 16%
Social Sciences 29 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 27 5%
Unspecified 10 2%
Other 52 10%
Unknown 153 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 41. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 June 2023.
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#983,377
of 25,240,298 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#71
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#10,574
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#1
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