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Empathy Articles By Topic >  Study: Empathetic doctors get better results with diabetic patients.
 2011-03-07  http://bit.ly/dQnjGY

 

Landmark Jefferson Study Shows Physician's Empathy Directly Associated with Positive Clinical Outcomes in Diabetic Patients
Newswire: Physician’s Empathy Directly Associated with Positive Clinical Outcomes in Diabetic Patients
   It has been thought that the quality of the physician-patient relationship is integral to positive outcomes but until now, data to confirm such beliefs has been hard to find.  Through a landmark study, a research team from Jefferson Medical College (JMC) of Thomas Jefferson University has been able to quantify a relationship between physicians’ empathy and their patients’ positive clinical outcomes, suggesting that a physician’s empathy is an important factor associated with clinical competence. The study is available in the March 2011 issue of Academic Medicine.

 

Journal - Academic Medicine. Physicians' Empathy and Clinical Outcomes for Diabetic Patients
 Academic Medicine. Search on Empathy
  Purpose: To test the hypothesis that physicians' empathy is associated with positive clinical outcomes for diabetic patients.
 Authors:Hojat, Mohammadreza PhD; Louis, Daniel Z. MS; Markham, Fred W. MD; Wender, Richard MD; Rabinowitz, Carol; Gonnella, Joseph S. MD

Jane wrote: "I think a good bedside manner including empathy is essential. My surgeon had it in abundance for me yesterday. It meant the world to me, and gave me a big boost :^)"

 

 Doctors Who Feel Your Pain Heal More Patients TIME 
   Empathy is often seen as a nice — but nonessential — part of medicine. Indeed, for surgeons in the operating room, seeing the patient as a human being may actually be an obstacle to successful ...

 

 A nice doctor gets you good results Saga Health News 
   If you've found yourself a GP who's understanding, listens and responds to your health concerns, congratulations – your health will be all the better for it. Siski Green reports A new study from Thomas Jefferson University has found that for diabetes ...

 

 Empathetic doctors get better results: Study Vancouver Sun 
   A doctor examines a patient in a file photo. In the study, researchers from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia linked physicians' sympathy and compassion to the success of their treatment of ...

 

Doctor empathy improves patient outcomes, Jefferson study finds  Bizjournals.com
   Is a doctor's ability to be compassionate as important as his or her technical know-how? A new study by researchers at the Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University says yes. The study involved 891 diabetic patients treated between July ...

 

 Physicians' empathy can improve patients' positive clinical outcomes Biomed Middle East -
   It has been thought that the quality of the physician-patient relationship is integral to positive outcomes but until now, data to confirm such beliefs has been hard to find. Through a landmark study, a research team from Jefferson Medical College ...

 

 Empathetic doctors get better results: Study
 Doctors who are empathetic achieve better clinical results, a new study suggests. In the study, researchers from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia linked physicians' sympathy and compassion to the success of their treatment of patients with diabetes.
 



 

 Study: Empathy integral to physician competence
   Confirming the team's hypothesis, patients of physicians with high empathy scores were significantly more likely to have good control over their blood sugar as well as cholesterol, while the inverse was true for patients of physicians with low scores.

 

 Diabetes Patients Fare Better With Empathetic Doctors
 Patients with diabetes whose physicians are more empathetic are more likely to have improved clinical outcomes, according to a study published in the March issue of Academic Medicine.


 

 Empathy Is 'Powerful Tool' in Improving Patient Outcomes, Say Family Physicians
 The study authors found that physicians' degree of empathy was a "unique and significant contributor" to the prediction of good control of hemoglobin A1c and of LDL among almost 900 patients with diabetes who participated in the study.