Background Empathy as a characteristic of patient–physician communication in both
general practice and clinical care is considered to be the backbone of the patient–physician …

OBJECTIVE: Although most health care professionals im-or explicitly will assume that they
tend to use patient-centered communication strategies, there are reasons to believe that this …

Objective There is general consensus that explicit expression of empathy in patient-GP
communication is highly valued. Yet, little is known so far about patients' personal …

Objective To describe pathways through which clinicians can more effectively respond to
patients' emotions in ways that contribute to betterment of the patient's health and well …

When studying the patient perspective on communication, some studies rely on analogue
patients (patients and healthy subjects) who rate videotaped medical consultations while …

Objective Experimental studies have found that clinician-expressed empathy improves
patients' information recall in (advanced) cancer consultations. It remains unclear, however …

Objective To discuss the theoretical and empirical framework of VR-CoDES and potential
future direction in research based on the coding system. Methods The paper is based on …

OBJECTIVE Patients with diabetes may experience high burden of treatment (BOT),
including treatment-related effects and self-care demands. We examined whether patients …

Background The dominant view of respect in western bioethics focuses almost exclusively
on respect for autonomy (or 'self-rule') as conceptualized primarily from the perspective of …

Background: Empathy is a cornerstone of effective communication. However, clinicians' and
patients' perceptions of clinician-expressed empathy might differ. The independent …