Compassionate Clinicians: Exemplary Care in Hospital Settings

The Science of Compassionate Love: Theory, Research, and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 345-372

  Graber, David R ^a   Mitcham, Maralynne D ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antecedents of caring environment in hospitals; Clinical professional cultures and compassionate care; Clinicians enacting caring and compassion to patients; Compassionate clinicians; Compassionate clinicians in two hospital settings; Compassionate hospital clinicians; Exemplary care in hospital settings; Key findings of compassionate clinicians study; Preliminary model of affective clinician patient interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349511427     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444303070.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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