A heuristic method for monetizing effects of caring is presented. Practitioners' caring behaviors have economic value to health care organizations through effects on patient satisfaction, physiology, self-disclosure, and self-esteem, and subsequent use of medications, laboratory tests, and procedures. These effects are monetized as revenues generated, costs avoided, costs reduced, and externalities.
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