Sympathy, empathy, and physician resource utilization
| Autor: | Michael S. Greenberg, Stephen D. Nightingale, Paul R. Yarnold |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
| Předmět: |
Resuscitation
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry media_common.quotation_subject medicine.medical_treatment Empathy Test (assessment) Health care rationing Spouse Family medicine Health care Internal Medicine medicine Intubation Cardiopulmonary resuscitation business Psychiatry media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of General Internal Medicine. 6:420-423 |
| ISSN: | 1525-1497 0884-8734 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/bf02598163 |
| Popis: | Objective:To test the hypothesis that physicians preferring a sympathetic over an empathetic response to a hypothetical patient’s misfortune will utilize more health care resources in the care of their patients. Design:Physicians were asked to select either the sympathetic response or the empathetic response to a hypothetical patient’s misfortune (death of a spouse) and to state their preferences for intubation of a hypothetical end-stage lung-disease patient. For each physician, hospital records were retrospectively reviewed to assess the mean number of laboratory tests ordered per clinic patient and the mean duration of cardiopulmonary resuscitations he or she performed before declaring his or her efforts unsuccessful. Setting:General medicine clinic at a large urban hospital. Participants:101 physicians above the postgraduate year-1 level who attended the general medicine clinic. Measurements and main results:As hypothesized, physicians selecting the sympathetic option (n=58) had a greater mean preference for intubation (p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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