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Compassion Fatigue

"Compassion Fatigue" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Emotional distress caused by repeated or prolonged expression of compassion or empathy. It may occur in individuals working in care giving professions.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Compassion Fatigue" by people in this website by year, and whether "Compassion Fatigue" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 5 publications over 4 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2017
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