Physician empathy: definition, components, measurement, and relationship to gender and specialty.

By M. Hojat, J. Gonnella, T. Nasca, S. Mangione, M. Vergare, Michael Magee. American Journal of Psychiatry, 2002

1,309 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Psychiatry and Mental health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In General Health Professions

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2. Colin P. West
3. J. Sloan
4. Lotte N. Dyrbye
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2. Tait D. Shanafelt
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2. Colin P. West
3. J. Sloan
4. S. Joseph
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Citations in the corpus

• The Effects of Physician Empathy on Patient Satisfaction and Compliance (2004, background): “…directly to the interpersonal communication between the patient and the provider and are particularly related to the physician’s empathic communicative behaviors (DiMatteo & Hays, 1980; DiMatteo, Taranta, Friedman, & Prince, 1980; Hojat et al., 2002; Linn & Wilson, 1980; Olson, 1995; Pelz, 1982).”
• Emotions in uniform: How nurses regulate emotion at work via emotional boundaries (2011, background): “Empathy involves both cognitive (recognizing and communicating an understanding of the other’s feelings) and affective (engaging with and experiencing the feelings of the other person) processes (Hojat et al., 2002).”
• Assessing Competence in Communication and Interpersonal Skills: The Kalamazoo II Report (2004, background): “These exercises can be used for educational needs assessment, but are probably not yet appropriate for high-stakes evaluations.(64,65,116)”
• THERAPY WORK AND THERAPISTS' POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE WELL-BEING (2007, methodology): “65 (Hojat et al., 2002).”
• Association of perceived medical errors with resident distress and empathy: a prospective longitudinal study. (2006, methodology): “Emotive empathy refers to an individual’s concern for the feelings of others.(42-46) Empathy was measured with the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), a 28-item instrument with 4 separate 7-item subscales evaluating different dimensions of empathy that are considered independently.”