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Sympathy, empathy, and compassion: A grounded theory study of palliative care patients’ understandings, experiences, and preferences

BACKGROUND: Compassion is considered an essential element in quality patient care. One of the conceptual challenges in healthcare literature is that compassion is often confused with sympathy and empathy. Studies comparing and contrasting patients’ perspectives of sympathy, empathy, and compassion a...

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Autores principales: Sinclair, Shane, Beamer, Kate, Hack, Thomas F, McClement, Susan, Raffin Bouchal, Shelley, Chochinov, Harvey M, Hagen, Neil A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5405806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27535319
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269216316663499