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ReviewJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine2017

Overthrowing barriers to empathy in healthcare: empathy in the age of the Internet.

J Howick, S Rees

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Review in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  12. Guarding against dispassion for doctors in the NHS.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2018
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  13. Personalised healthcare and population healthcare.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2018
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  15. Why empathy is an upside-down concept.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

J HowickThe Oxford Empathy Care Group, Oxford, UK.
S ReesThe Oxford Empathy Care Group, Oxford, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Adaptation, PsychologicalAttitude of Health PersonnelEmpathyInternetDelivery of Health CareHumans

Identifiers

PMID28654757
PMCPMC5962039

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.