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Measurement and correlates of empathy among female Japanese physicians

BACKGROUND: The measurement of empathy is important in the assessment of physician competence and patient outcomes. The prevailing view is that female physicians have higher empathy scores compared with male physicians. In Japan, the number of female physicians has increased rapidly in the past ten...

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Autores principales: Kataoka, Hitomi U, Koide, Norio, Hojat, Mohammadreza, Gonnella, Joseph S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3493267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22726449
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-12-48