Background: Compassion is considered an essential element in quality patient care. One of
the conceptual challenges in healthcare literature is that compassion is often confused with …

Background Compassion fatigue describes a work-related stress response in healthcare
providers that is considered a ‘cost of caring’ and a key contributor to the loss of compassion in …

‘Not yet’ and ‘Just ask’: barriers and facilitators to advance care planning—a qualitative
descriptive study of the perspectives of seriously ill, older patients and their families | BMJ …

Background This meta‐narrative review, conducted according to the RAMESES (Realist And
Meta‐narrative Evidence Syntheses: Evolving Standards) standards, critically examines the …

Background There is little concrete guidance on how to train current and future healthcare
providers (HCPs) in the core competency of compassion. This study was undertaken using …

Although grief and family caregiving have been extensively studied, there exists limited
knowledge of anticipatory grief as it relates to families’ transition in illness to bereavement. …

Background Recent concerns about suboptimal patient care and a lack of compassion have
prompted policymakers to question the preparedness of clinicians for the challenging …

Context Compassion is frequently referenced as a hallmark of quality care by patients, health
care providers, health care administrators, and policy makers. Despite its putative centrality…

Hermeneutics as a research practice, if it is to remain true to its philosophical origins, involves
reappraisal and reinterpretation in relation to its cultural contexts. Among the threads of …

Postpartum depression is a serious condition that can have long lasting traumatic effects on
women and their families. Until recently postpartum depression research has focused more …