ArticleJournal of general internal medicine2026
Machine Learning to Identify Physician Actions Associated with Patient Experience of Compassion.
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- Patient Experience of Clinician Compassion Is Associated With Healthcare System Distrust Among Emergency Department Patients.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundPhysician compassion is associated with improvement in a variety of patient outcomes, but it remains unclear which individual physician behaviors affect patients' experience of compassion.
objectiveTo determine which physician behaviors are most associated with patients' experience of compassion.
designWe conducted a cross-sectional study at two urban academic emergency departments (ED) from September 2023 to May 2024. Participants completed questionnaires with a previously validated 5-item compassion measure and questions about whether the patient's physician exhibited any of 27 behaviors previously proposed to be associated with compassion.
participantsWe enrolled adult (age 18 years or older) patients presenting to each ED. MAIN MEASURES: The primary outcome was patient experience of physician compassion using the 5-item compassion measure. We used the machine learning algorithm LASSO to identify the group of actions that best predict the 5-item compassion measure. We performed exploratory analyses using linear regression with interaction terms to test for differences by patient race (White vs Black) and gender.
resultsA total of 1025 patients completed the questionnaire (717 from site 1; 308 from site 2). The action with the strongest association with greater compassion was "Listen carefully to what you had to say" [β = 5.67 (95% CI 3.36 to 7.98)]. The LASSO algorithm identified nine actions as the best predictors, and this model explained roughly a third of variation in compassion scores: r
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