Compassionate care enhancement: benefits and outcomes

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Published: Dec 20, 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5750/ijpcm.v1i4.153

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Stephen G Post
Division of Medicine in Society and Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics, Stony Brook University, New York

Abstract

This review of outcome studies demonstrates that compassionate care benefits patients with regard to elected treatment adherence, wound healing, satisfaction, and well-being; it benefits physicians with regard to lowered depression rates, elevated meaning, lower burnout, and more diligent technical care; it benefits healthcare systems that establish reputational gains at no greater use of time or resources; it benefits medical students with regard to their diminished complaints of abusive clinical environments and maladaptive team interactions. There is no doubt that compassionate care has many dimensions of beneficial impact.

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Vol. 1 No. 4 (2011): December
Section
Person-centered care: general aspects

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