Assessing the credibility and transferability of the patient compassion model in non-cancer palliative populations

A lack of evidence and psychometrically sound measures of compassion necessitated the development of the first known, empirically derived, theoretical Patient Compassion Model (PCM) generated from qualitative interviews with advanced cancer inpatients. We aimed to assess the credibility and transferability of the PCM across diverse palliative populations and settings. Semi-structured, audio-recorded qualitative interviews were conducted with 20...