The development of empathy in the healthcare setting: a qualitative approach.

Background: Healthcare professionals' empathetic behaviors have been known to lead to higher satisfaction levels and produce better health outcomes for patients. However, empathy could decrease over time especially during training and clinical practice. This study explored factors that contributed to the development of empathy in the healthcare setting.

Defining clinical empathy: a grounded theory approach from the perspective of healthcare workers and patients in a multicultural setting.

Objective: To define clinical empathy from the perspective of healthcare workers and patients from a multicultural setting.

Design: Grounded theory approach using focus group discussions.

Setting: A health cluster in Singapore consisting of an acute hospital, a community hospital, ambulatory care teams, a medical school and a nursing school.

Interprofessional education (IPE) in clinical practice for pre-registration nursing students: A structured literature review.

Objectives: To explore the experiences of nursing students after clinical IPE activities through a review of contemporary literature then use the context of nursing programmes in Singapore to consider the transferability of the findings.

Design: Structured literature review.

Data Sources: A search of international qualitative literature no older than five years and published in English was conducted on CINAHL, Embase, Medline and Pubmed.

Surrogate consent for critical care research: exploratory study on public perception and influences on recruitment.

Introduction: Critical Care research involves an increasing level of technical and clinical interventions for the unconscious patient. If the general public has a negative (unfavourable) view of surrogate consent, low recruitment rates are likely. Results bias will be introduced if study populations are small, hindering knowledge generation and transfer through research.