Kindness: Definitions and a pilot study for the development of a kindness scale in healthcare

• Austin B. Hake ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: austin.hake@stonybrookmedicine.edu

  Affiliation Department of Family, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care & Bioethics, Population & Preventative Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5427-4176

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• Stephen G. Post

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Family, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care & Bioethics, Population & Preventative Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

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