Do I care for you more when you really need help? An experimental test of the effect of clinical urgency on compassion in health care
Alina Pavlova,
Sarah‐Jane Paine,
Alana Cavadino
et al.
Abstract:ObjectivesTo experimentally investigate whether more urgent patient presentations elicit greater compassion from health care professionals than less urgent, facilitating future research and thinking to address systemic barriers to compassion in health care.DesignThis is a pre‐registered online study with an experimental, within‐subjects repeated‐measure study design. Two clinical vignettes that systematically varied the urgency of patient presentation were utilized. Both vignettes depicted a patient with diffi… Show more
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