Trust is considered as an important process in establishing positive patient–professional
relationships and healthcare outcomes. While many studies denote the mutual–reciprocal …

Policy Points First, policymakers can create conditions that will facilitate public trust in health
care organizations by making creating and enforcing health policies that make exploitative …

Purpose–The aim of this paper is to provide a rationale for examining trust in health care.
Design/methodology/approach–Conducts a review of the literature of trust relations in health …

Sociological research offers crucial understanding of the salience of trust for patients in
mediating a plurality of healthcare activities and settings. Whilst insights generated …

Purpose Trust is important for patients and may be used as an indicator and potential
'marker'for how patients evaluate the quality of health care. The review aimed to classify the …

Objective Trust is an essential part of the physician-patient relationship. Yet physicians'
perspectives in physician-patient trust has always been ignored, and the concept has not yet …

This chapter addresses some gaps in the current research on trust in patient-physician
relationships. First, we view the relationship between physicians and patients as reciprocal …

Trust is one of the central features of patient-physician relationships. Rapid changes in the
health care system are feared by many to be threatening patients' trust in their physicians …

Purpose–This article reviews research in the USA bearing on trust in physicians and
medical institutions. Design/methodology/approach–This article provides a conceptual …

Increasingly, physicians are expected to work in productive, trusting relationships with other
health system stakeholders to improve patient and system outcomes. A better understanding …