How empathic is your healthcare practitioner? A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient surveys.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A growing body of evidence suggests that healthcare practitioners who enhance how they express empathy can improve patient health, and reduce medico-legal risk. However we do not know how consistently healthcare practitioners express adequate empathy. In this study, we addressed this gap by investigating patient rankings of practitioner empathy.

Methods

We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies that asked patients to rate their practitioners' empathy using the Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) measure. CARE is emerging as the most common and best-validated patient rating of practitioner empathy. We searched: MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, Cinahl, Science & Social Science Citation Indexes, the Cochrane Library and PubMed from database incep

SUBMITTER: Howick J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5563892 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature