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Overview

Thomas F. Hack is affiliated with the University of Manitoba in Canada and focuses primarily on research in the fields of Medicine and Health Professions. Their work spans various subfields including General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Oncology, Clinical Psychology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The main topics of Thomas F. Hack's research include:

  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Cancer survivorship and care
  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Clinical practice guidelines implementation
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life

The scientist has contributed to multiple academic venues, frequently publishing in:

  • Supportive Care in Cancer
  • BMC Health Services Research
  • BMC Medical Education
  • Patient
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

Thomas F. Hack has co-authored work often with the following researchers:

  • Heather L. Shepherd
  • Jessica Cuddy
  • Phyllis Butow
  • Nicole Rankin
  • Afaf Girgis

Selected recent papers include:

  • What Is the State of Compassion Education? A Systematic Review of Compassion Training in Health Care (2021), Academic Medicine
  • What works for whom in compassion training programs offered to practicing healthcare providers: a realist review (2021), BMC Medical Education
  • Healthcare providers perspectives on compassion training: a grounded theory study (2020), BMC Medical Education
  • Development and validation of a patient-reported measure of compassion in healthcare: the Sinclair Compassion Questionnaire (SCQ) (2021), BMJ Open
  • What is the Most Valid and Reliable Compassion Measure in Healthcare? An Updated Comprehensive and Critical Review (2022), Patient

Best Publications

  • Validation of a decision regret scale.

    Jamie C Brehaut;Annette M. O'Connor;Timothy J Wood;Thomas F Hack

  • Dignity Therapy: A Novel Psychotherapeutic Intervention for Patients Near the End of Life

    Harvey Max Chochinov;Thomas Hack;Thomas Hassard;Linda J. Kristjanson

  • Dignity in the terminally ill: a developing empirical model.

    Harvey Max Chochinov;Thomas Hack;Susan McClement;Linda Kristjanson

  • Effect of dignity therapy on distress and end-of-life experience in terminally ill patients: a randomised controlled trial

    Harvey Max Chochinov;Linda J Kristjanson;Linda J Kristjanson;Linda J Kristjanson;William Breitbart;Susan McClement

  • Dignity in the terminally ill: a cross-sectional, cohort study

    Harvey Max Chochinov;Thomas Hack;Thomas Hassard;Linda J Kristjanson

  • Sympathy, empathy, and compassion: A grounded theory study of palliative care patients’ understandings, experiences, and preferences

    Shane Sinclair;Kate Beamer;Thomas F Hack;Susan McClement

  • Compassion: a scoping review of the healthcare literature

    Shane Sinclair;Jill M. Norris;Shelagh J. McConnell;Harvey Max Chochinov

  • The communication goals and needs of cancer patients: a review

    Thomas F Hack;Lesley F Degner;Patricia A Parker

  • The Patient Dignity Inventory: A Novel Way of Measuring Dignity-Related Distress in Palliative Care

    Harvey Max Chochinov;Thomas Hassard;Susan McClement;Thomas Hack

  • Do patients benefit from participating in medical decision making? Longitudinal follow-up of women with breast cancer.

    Thomas F. Hack;Lesley F. Degner;Peter Watson;Luella Sinha

  • Physical and Psychological Morbidity After Axillary Lymph Node Dissection for Breast Cancer

    Thomas F. Hack;Lorenzo Cohen;Joel Katz;Lynda S. Robson

  • Relationship between preferences for decisional control and illness information among women with breast cancer: A quantitative and qualitative analysis

    Thomas F. Hack;Lesley F. Degner;Dennis G. Dyck

  • Coping responses following breast cancer diagnosis predict psychological adjustment three years later.

    Thomas F. Hack;Lesley F. Degner

  • Compassion in Health Care: An Empirical Model.

    Shane Sinclair;Susan McClement;Shelley Raffin-Bouchal;Thomas F. Hack

  • Dignity in the terminally ill: revisited.

    Harvey M. Chochinov;Linda J. Krisjanson;Thomas F. Hack;Thomas Hassard

  • Understanding the Will to Live in Patients Nearing Death.

    Harvey Max Chochinov;Thomas Hack;Thomas Hassard;Linda J. Kristjanson

  • The Landscape of Distress in the Terminally Ill

    Harvey Max Chochinov;Thomas Hassard Hassard;Susan McClement;Thomas Hack

  • Dignity therapy: family member perspectives.

    Susan McClement;Harvey Max Chochinov;Thomas Hack;Thomas Hassard

  • Models of care for post-treatment follow-up of adult cancer survivors: a systematic review and quality appraisal of the evidence.

    D. Howell;D. Howell;D. Howell;T. F. Hack;T. K. Oliver;T. Chulak

  • Burden to others and the terminally ill.

    Harvey Max Chochinov;Linda J. Kristjanson;Thomas F. Hack;Thomas Hassard

Frequent Co-Authors

Barry D. Bultz
Barry D. Bultz University of Calgary
Penelope Schofield
Penelope Schofield Swinburne University of Technology
Phyllis Butow
Phyllis Butow University of Sydney
Linda E. Carlson
Linda E. Carlson University of Calgary
William Breitbart
William Breitbart Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Afaf Girgis
Afaf Girgis University of New South Wales
Brian Kelly
Brian Kelly University of Newcastle Australia
Murray W. Enns
Murray W. Enns University of Manitoba
Claire E. Wakefield
Claire E. Wakefield University of New South Wales
Catherine M. Sabiston
Catherine M. Sabiston University of Toronto

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