What Matters More about the Interpersonal Reactivity Index and the Jefferson Scale of Empathy? Their Underlying Constructs or Their Relationships with Pertinent Measures of Clinical Competence and Patient Outcomes?

Academic Medicine

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 743-745

  Hojat, Mohammadreza ^a   Gonnella, Joseph S ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOMETRICS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84992034203     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001424     Document Type: Review

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