ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2018
Physician Empathy Interacts with Breaking Bad News in Predicting Lung Cancer and Pleural Mesothelioma Patient Survival: Timing May Be Crucial.
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- A systematic review identifying effective teaching methods and their combinations for increasing empathy in physicians: pairwise and network meta-analysis.BMC medical education · 2025Pooled it
- The influence of "bad news" and "neutral/good news" on patients' perception of physician empathy during oncology consultations.Cancer medicine · 2024Article
- Role of empathy in the outcomes of colorectal cancer: protocol for a population-based study in two areas in France (EMPACOL Project).BMJ open · 2022Article
- Understanding of empathetic communication in acute hospital settings: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Discussing Prognosis with Empathy to Cancer Patients.Current oncology reports · 2021Review
- Communication of a mesothelioma diagnosis: developing recommendations to improve the patient experience.BMJ open respiratory research · 2019Article
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Abstract
This study is the first to examine the prognostic role of physician empathy in interaction with the type of consultation (TC) (TC, bad news versus follow-up consultations) in cancer patient survival. Between January 2015 and March 2016, 179 outpatients with thoracic cancer and a Karnofsky performance status ≥60 assessed their oncologist's empathy using the CARE questionnaire, which provides a general score and two sub-dimensions: listening/compassion and active/positive empathy. Survival was recorded until April 2018. Usual medical, social and psychological confounders were included in the Cox regression. The median follow-up time was 3.1 years. There was a statistical interaction between listening/compassion empathy and TC (
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