The Relationship Between Physician Empathy and Disease Complications

Canale, S. Del; Louis, Daniel Z.; Maio, Vittorio; Wang, Xiaohong; Rossi, Giuseppina; Hojat, Mohammadreza; Gonnella, Joseph S.

doi:10.1097/acm.0b013e3182628fbf

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“…What is needed for this is a newly defined cooperation between patients and their caregivers. The wellfunctioning patient-physician relationship is still an essential part of healing: a decisive study revealed that the empathy skills of physicians can influence diabetic patients' objective laboratory parameters, development of complications and subjective well-being (44).…”

Section: The Future Of Digital Healthmentioning

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Digital health is a cultural transformation of traditional healthcare

Meskó¹,

Drobni²,

Bényei³

et al. 2017

mHealth

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Under the term "digital health", advanced medical technologies, disruptive innovations and digital communication have gradually become inseparable from providing best practice healthcare. While the cost of treating chronic conditions is increasing and doctor shortages are imminent worldwide, the needed transformation in the structure of healthcare and medicine fails to catch up with the rapid progress of the medical technology industry. This transition is slowed down by strict regulations; the reluctance of stakeholders in healthcare to change; and ignoring the importance of cultural changes and the human factor in an increasingly technological world. With access and adoption of technology getting higher, the risk of patients primarily turning to an accessible, but unregulated technological solution for their health problem is likely to increase. In this paper, we discuss how the old paradigm of the paternalistic model of medicine is transforming into an equal level partnership between patients and professionals and how it is aided and augmented by disruptive technologies. We attempt to define what digital health means and how it affects the status quo of care and also the study design in implementing technological innovations into the practice of medicine.

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Section: The Future Of Digital Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital health is a cultural transformation of traditional healthcare

Meskó¹,

Drobni²,

Bényei³

et al. 2017

mHealth

457

302

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“…In addition to subjective well-being, compassionate care also improves physical outcomes. For example, diabetic patients whose provider scored high (versus moderate or low) on compassion had better metabolic control (versus moderate or low control) and fewer metabolic complications [5]. Provider compassion (as rated by the patient) also predicts shorter duration and severity of the common cold [1] and improved patient satisfaction, treatment compliance, and health outcomes [2] in a broad array of patient populations [3,4].…”

Section: The Benefits Of Compassion For Patients and Providersmentioning

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“…A growing body of research indicates that high levels of stress in the healthcare field lead to negative outcomesfor medical providers, healthcare staff, and patients-and that a large part of the damage can be traced to the deleterious effects of stress on compassion and social connection [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Yet the question of how to increase compassion in a way that is practical given the tight schedules of medical professionals has not been answered.…”

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Loving-kindness meditation: a tool to improve healthcare provider compassion, resilience, and patient care

Seppälä

Hutcherson

Nguyen

et al. 2014

J of Compassionate Health Care

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Background: Stress is a critical problem facing many healthcare institutions. The consequences of stress include increased provider burnout and decreased quality of care for patients. Ironically, a key factor that may help buffer the impact of stress on provider well-being and patient health outcomes-compassion-is low in healthcare settings and declines under stress. This gives rise to an urgent question: what practical steps can be taken to increase compassion, thereby benefitting both provider well-being and patient care? Methods: We investigated the relative effectiveness of a short, 10-minute session of loving-kindness meditation (LKM) to increase compassion and positive affect. We compared LKM to a non-compassion positive affect induction (PAI) and a neutral visualization (NEU) condition. Self-and other-focused affect, self-reported measures of social connection, and semi-implicit measures of self-focus were measured pre-and post-meditation using repeated measures ANOVAs and via paired sample t-tests for follow-up comparisons. Results: Findings show that LKM improves well-being and feelings of connection over and above other positive-affect inductions, at both explicit and implicit levels, while decreasing self-focus in under 10 minutes and in novice meditators. Conclusions: These findings suggest that LKM may be a viable, practical, and time-effective solution for preventing burnout and promoting resilience in healthcare providers and for improving quality of care in patients.

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“…To support this, one study observed that physician empathy tended to decrease as the physician became more professionally educated (Dehning et al, 2013). Actual interpersonal exchange benefits were confirmed in a study of weight loss for diabetic patients, and empathy practiced in an actual setting brought better client outcomes (Canale et al, 2012). Social work practitioners similarly achieve more effective client outcomes when they are empathically competent .…”

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Contributions of Neuroscience to a New Empathy Epistemology: Implications for Developmental Training

VanCleave

2017

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The Relationship Between Physician Empathy and Disease Complications

Cited by 413 publications

References 36 publications

Digital health is a cultural transformation of traditional healthcare

Digital health is a cultural transformation of traditional healthcare

Loving-kindness meditation: a tool to improve healthcare provider compassion, resilience, and patient care

Contributions of Neuroscience to a New Empathy Epistemology: Implications for Developmental Training

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