Original Article

Prayers in the Clinic: How Pediatric Physicians Respond

Background:Physicians and researchers have recently paid increased attention to prayer in physician-patient interactions. Research focuses more on attitudinal questions about whether physicians and/or patients think prayer is relevant than on actual data about when and how prayer comes up in the clinic and how physicians respond. We focus on pediatric…

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Review Article

The Provision of Hospital Chaplaincy in the United States: A National Overview

Over the past 25 years, the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has changed its guidelines regarding religious/spiritual care of hospitalized patients to increase attention concerning this aspect of hospital-based care. Little empirical evidence assesses the extent to which hospitals relied on hospital chaplains as care providers during…

Posted in: hospital chaplaincy 2 provision of healthcare services 2 religion 17 spirituality 20
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