Empathy Programme - About - draft
About
AimFor all healthcare interactions to include a dose of empathy. This often, but not always, requires additional time. We work to ensure that the evidence-based benefits of empathic care are implemented into the heart of all healthcare settings and interactions. Empathic care has been shown to improve patient outcomes as well as practitioner well-being. Trials show that empathic care can reduce: patient pain, depression, anxiety, practitioner burnout, and patient complaints / medico-legal risk. It can also improve: patient satisfaction, well-being, and improve medication adherence. Yet the ext Key Areas of Work
Values
Selected Publications
PrioritiesOverall: Building a model of an ‘empathic healthcare organisation’ and evaluating/implementing it. If you are interested in this please contact jeremy.howick@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
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- Conducting and disseminating research on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of empathic health care and the factors that support its delivery.
- Influencing healthcare policy and practice to support empathic care.
- Developing and providing training and development related to empathy for healthcare practitioners, healthcare managers and trainees.
- Using best available evidence to inform decisions.
- Collaborating across boundaries.
- Promoting integrity and quality.
- Supporting next generation of empathy leaders.
- Overthrowing barriers to empathy in healthcare: empathy in the age of the Internet. Journal article (2017), Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 110, 352 - 357
- How empathic is your healthcare practitioner? A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient surveys. Journal article (2017), BMC Medical Education, 17
- Effect on cardiovascular disease risk factors of interventions to alter consultations between practitioners and patients with type diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of trials in primary care. Journal article (2017), Heal
Overall: Building a model of an ‘empathic healthcare organisation’ and evaluating/implementing it. If you are interested in this please contact jeremy.howick@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Research: the health economics of empathy (does it save or cost money?) If you are interested in this please contact Jeremy.howick@philosophy.ox.ac.uk.
Teaching: deliver the empathy training course (if you are interested in this please contact Jeremy.howick@philosophy.ox.ac.uk).
Other: what is the role of technology in an empathic healthcare organization? If you are interested
About
For all healthcare interactions to include a dose of empathy. This often, but not always, requires additional time.We work to ensure that the evidence-based benefits of empathic care are implemented into the heart of all healthcare settings and interactions.
Empathic care has been shown to improve patient outcomes as well as practitioner well-being. Trials show that empathic care can reduce: patient pain, depression, anxiety, practitioner burnout, and patient complaints / medico-legal risk. It can also improve: patient satisfaction, well-being, and improve medication adherence. Yet the ext
- Conducting and disseminating research on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of empathic health care and the factors that support its delivery.
- Influencing healthcare policy and practice to support empathic care.
- Developing and providing training and development related to empathy for healthcare practitioners, healthcare managers and trainees.
- Using best available evidence to inform decisions.
- Collaborating across boundaries.
- Promoting integrity and quality.
- Supporting next generation of empathy leaders.
- Overthrowing barriers to empathy in healthcare: empathy in the age of the Internet. Journal article (2017), Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 110, 352 - 357
- How empathic is your healthcare practitioner? A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient surveys. Journal article (2017), BMC Medical Education, 17
- Effect on cardiovascular disease risk factors of interventions to alter consultations between practitioners and patients with type diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of trials in primary care. Journal article (2017), Heal
Overall: Building a model of an ‘empathic healthcare organisation’ and evaluating/implementing it. If you are interested in this please contact jeremy.howick@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Research: the health economics of empathy (does it save or cost money?) If you are interested in this please contact Jeremy.howick@philosophy.ox.ac.uk.
Teaching: deliver the empathy training course (if you are interested in this please contact Jeremy.howick@philosophy.ox.ac.uk).
Other: what is the role of technology in an empathic healthcare organization? If you are interested