Compassion: A scoping review of the healthcare literature Knowledge, education and training

BMC Palliative Care

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Sinclair, Shane ^a,c,d   Norris, Jill M ^a   McConnell, Shelagh J ^a   Chochinov, Harvey Max ^b,d   Hack, Thomas F ^b,d   Hagen, Neil A ^c   McClement, Susan ^b,d   Bouchal, Shelley Raffin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d CANCERCARE MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compassion; Healthcare; Intervention; Patients; Scoping review

Indexed keywords

DATA BASE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION; EMPIRICISM; FAMILY; FAMILY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVENTION STUDY; NARRATIVE; PERCEPTION; STUDENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VOICE; COMPASSION FATIGUE; EMPATHY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; LEARNING; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; STANDARDS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMPASSION FATIGUE; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EMPATHY; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; LEARNING; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PERCEPTION;

EID: 84955060409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472684X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12904-016-0080-0     Document Type: Review

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