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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2018

Empathy Variation in General Practice: A Survey among General Practitioners in Denmark.

Justin A Charles, Peder Ahnfeldt-Mollerup, Jens Søndergaard, Troels Kristensen

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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13citing 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Justin A CharlesCenter for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, NY 11794, USA. Justin.Charles@stonybrookmedicine.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-2003-872X
Peder Ahnfeldt-MollerupResearch Unit of General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, J.B. Winsløws Vej 9, DK-5000 Odense C, Denmark. pahnfeldt-mollerup@health.sdu.dk.
Jens SøndergaardResearch Unit of General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, J.B. Winsløws Vej 9, DK-5000 Odense C, Denmark. JSoendergaard@health.sdu.dk.
Troels KristensenCOHERE, Department of Public Health & Research Unit of General Practice, University of Southern Denmark, 5000 Odense C, Denmark. trkristensen@health.sdu.dk.ORCID 0000-0001-5232-6895
University of Southern Denmark · DK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

EmpathyAdultAgedAttitude of Health PersonnelCross-Sectional StudiesDenmarkFemaleGeneral PracticeGeneral PractitionersHumansJob SatisfactionLogistic ModelsMaleMiddle AgedPhysician-Patient RelationsSocial ValuesDenmarkgeneral practiceGP characteristicsJefferson scale of empathy (JSE)job satisfactionmedical educationorganization of carephysician empathyprimary carevariation

Identifiers

PMID29498682
PMCPMC5876978
OpenAlexW2789829342

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