Patient education and counseling
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Comparative Study
The impact of financial incentives on physician empathy: a study from the perspective of patients with private and statutory health insurance.
We hypothesized that patients' ratings of physician empathy (PE) would be higher among those with private health insurance (PHI, referring to financial incentive) than among patients with statutory health insurance (SHI). ⋯ Health policy should discuss these findings in terms of equality in receiving high-quality care.