Vaccine acceptance depends on public trust and confidence in the safety and efficacy of
vaccines and immunization, the health system, healthcare professionals and the wider …

The global ubiquity of overuse and underuse of health-care resources and the gravity of
resulting harms necessitate an investigation of drivers to inform potential solutions. We …

Objective To examine whether patients' trust in the health care professional is associated
with health outcomes. Study selection We searched 4 major electronic databases for studies …

Few researchers have attempted to examine the mechanisms through which HIV-related
stigma in the community is processed and experienced at an individual level by people …

Question During the patient-therapist encounter, which communication factors correlate with
constructs of therapeutic alliance? Design Systematic review. Participants Clinicians and …

Despite the profound and pervasive importance of trust in medical settings, there is no
commonly shared understanding of what trust means, and little is known about what …

Trust-the willingness to accept vulnerability to the actions of others-is the essential
ingredient for friendship, commerce, transportation, and virtually every other activity that …

Purpose. We report the validation of an instrument to measure mistrust of health care
organizations and examine the relationship between mistrust and health care service …

People's trust in the health system plays a role in explaining one's access to and utilization
of medical care, adherence to medications, continuity of care, and even self-reported health …

PURPOSE Although concordance by race and sex in physician-patient relationships has
been associated with patient ratings of better care, mechanisms through which concordance …