John Maltby

Interactions Between Health Inequalities on the Management and Outcomes of Thoracic Aortic Disease in England: A National Cohort Study

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to evaluate the intersectionality between measured causes of health inequality and clinical factors that influence treatment decisions and regional variations in care and survival for people with thoracic aortic disease (TAD) in England. METH...

Rapid Assessment of Therapeutic Empathy (RATE): Development of a universal single-item empathy scale and validation of the patient-reported version

Background Therapeutic empathy improves patient and practitioner outcomes, yet existing measures are often lengthy, conceptually inconsistent, and difficult to compare across respondent groups. Brief, universal measures (usable by patients, practitioners, students, and observers)...