"Empathy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
An individual's objective and insightful awareness of the feelings and behavior of another person. It should be distinguished from sympathy, which is usually nonobjective and noncritical. It includes caring, which is the demonstration of an awareness of and a concern for the good of others. (From Bioethics Thesaurus, 1992)
| Descriptor ID |
D004645
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.752.355 F01.752.543.500.500
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Empathy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Empathy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2000 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2005 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2013 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2014 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2015 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2018 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Empathy" by people in Profiles.
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Shaw AC, McQuade JL, Reilley MJ, Nixon B, Baile WF, Epner DE. Integrating Storytelling into a Communication Skills Teaching Program for Medical Oncology Fellows. J Cancer Educ. 2019 Dec; 34(6):1198-1203.
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McLaren V, Vanwoerden S, Sharp C. The Basic Empathy Scale: Factor structure and validity in a sample of inpatient adolescents. Psychol Assess. 2019 Oct; 31(10):1208-1219.
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Gutierrez AM, Statham EE, Robinson JO, Slashinski MJ, Scollon S, Bergstrom KL, Street RL, Parsons DW, Plon SE, McGuire AL. Agents of empathy: How medical interpreters bridge sociocultural gaps in genomic sequencing disclosures with Spanish-speaking families. Patient Educ Couns. 2019 05; 102(5):895-901.
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Louie AK, Coverdale JH, Balon R, Beresin EV, Brenner AM, Guerrero APS, Roberts LW. Enhancing Empathy: a Role for Virtual Reality? Acad Psychiatry. 2018 Dec; 42(6):747-752.
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Kang JH, Go SI, Bruera E. Compassion is a key quality for palliative care teams. Cancer Med. 2018 11; 7(11):5325-5326.
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Greenberg DM, Baron-Cohen S, Rosenberg N, Fonagy P, Rentfrow PJ. Elevated empathy in adults following childhood trauma. PLoS One. 2018; 13(10):e0203886.
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Gambin M, Sharp C. The relations between empathy, guilt, shame and depression in inpatient adolescents. J Affect Disord. 2018 12 01; 241:381-387.
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Haider A, Tanco K, Epner M, Azhar A, Williams J, Liu DD, Bruera E. Physicians' Compassion, Communication Skills, and Professionalism With and Without Physicians' Use of an Examination Room Computer: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2018 06 01; 4(6):879-881.
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Wolfe AD. A Forbidden Island. Acad Pediatr. 2018 Sep - Oct; 18(7):726-727.
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Gambin M, Sharp C. Relations between empathy and anxiety dimensions in inpatient adolescents. Anxiety Stress Coping. 2018 Jul; 31(4):447-458.