Objective Despite a call for empathy in medical settings, little is known about the effects of
the empathy of health care professionals on patient outcomes. This review investigates the …

Research on adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer has flourished over the past
decade, underscoring the unique medical and psychosocial needs of this vulnerable group …

Objective To develop learning objectives for a core communication curriculum for all health
care professions and to survey the acceptability and suitability of the curriculum for …

Objective The diagnosis of incurable cancer may evoke physiological arousal in patients.
Physiological arousal can negatively impact patients' recall of information provided in the …

Background Communication and shared decision-making (SDM) are essential to patient-
centered care. Hospital-based palliative care with patients with limited health literacy (LHL) …

Objective: Patients' recall of provided information during bad news consultations is poor.
According to the attentional narrowing hypothesis, the emotional arousal caused by the bad …

Objective To experimentally test the effects of physician's affect-oriented communication and
inducing expectations on outcomes in patients with menstrual pain. Methods Using a 2× 2 …

Kidney palliative care is a growing discipline within nephrology. Kidney palliative care
specifically addresses the stress and burden of advanced kidney disease through the …

Aim To explore communication research in nursing by investigating the theoretical
approaches, methods, content and perspectives in research on real‐time registered nurse …

Aims Chronic patients are increasingly expected to participate actively in medical
consultations. This study examined (i) patients' perceived efficacy and barriers to …