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Comparisons Of American, Israeli, Italian And Mexican Physicians And Nurses On The Total And Factor Scores Of The Jefferson Scale Of Attitudes Toward Physician-Nurse Collaborative Relationships, Mohammadreza Hojat, Joseph S. Gonnella, Thomas J. Nasca, Sylvia K. Fields, Americo Cicchetti, Alessandra Lo Scalzo, Francesco Taroni, Anna Maria Vincenza Amicosante, Manuela Macinati, Massimo Tangucci, Carlo Liva, Gualtiero Ricciardi, Schmuel Eidelman, Hanna Admi, Hana Geva, Tanya Mashiach, Gideon Alroy, Adelina Alcorta-Gonzalez, David Ibarra, Antonio Torres-Ruiz

CRMEHC Faculty Papers

This cross-cultural study was designed to compare the attitudes of physicians and nurses toward physician–nurse collaboration in the United States, Israel, Italy and Mexico. Total participants were 2522 physicians and nurses who completed the Jefferson Scale of Attitudes Toward Physician–Nurse Collaboration (15 Likert-type items, (Hojat et al., Evaluation and the Health Professions 22 (1999a) 208; Nursing Research 50 (2001) 123). They were compared on the total scores and four factors of the Jefferson Scale (shared education and team work, caring as opposed to curing, nurses, autonomy, physicians’ dominance). Results showed inter- and intra-cultural similarities and differences among the study groups …

Clinical And Demographic Characteristics Of Psychiatric Inpatients Admitted Via Emergency And Non-Emergency Routes At A University Hospital In Pakistan, E U. Syed, S Mehmud, R Atiq

Department of Psychiatry

Objective: To examine the differences in the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients admitted through emergency versus non-emergency routes and see if these two groups of patients were significantly different from each other with respect to criteria mentioned in the title.Methods: Retrospective data was analysed in all 2576 patient records were reviewed and these patients were divided in two groups with respect to their mode of admission (emergency vs non emergency). These groups were then compared with respect to sex, age, length of stay, discharge status and diagnostic categories. Statistical package for social sciences version 8.0 (SPSS 8.0) was used …

Physician Empathy: Definition, Components, Measurement, And Relationship To Gender And Specialty, Mohammadreza Hojat, Joseph S. Gonnella, Thomas J. Nasca, Salvatore Mangione Md, Michael Vergare, Michael Magee

CRMEHC Faculty Papers

OBJECTIVE: There is a dearth of empirical research on physician empathy despite its mediating role in patient-physician relationships and clinical outcomes. This study was designed to investigate the components of physician empathy, its measurement properties, and group differences in empathy scores.

METHOD: A revised version of the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (with 20 Likert-type items) was mailed to 1,007 physicians affiliated with the Jefferson Health System in the greater Philadelphia region; 704 (70%) responded. Construct validity, reliability of the empathy scale, and the differences on mean empathy scores by physicians’ gender and specialty were examined.

RESULTS: Three meaningful factors …