Building Trust Between Patients and Physicians

Building Trust Chains between CORBA Objects

This work presents an authentication and authorization model that results from the integration of the SPKI/SDSI infrastructure with CORBAsec. The paper presents the main facilities provided by the proposed model, showing the advantages of using the SPKI/SDSI infrastructure. CORBA provides to the model the advantages of interoperable distributed objects in heterogeneous environments. The idea de...

Living Will Awareness and Collective Trust between Physicians, Cancer Patients and Caregivers: A Qualitative Study

Background: A living will is a form of Advance Directive (AD) that represents a patient’s wish, ensuring that their autonomy is respected and answered. However, after the Health Act Legislation in 2007, no practical assessment of living wills has been investigated in Thailand yet. Aim: To explore living will awareness and attitude in cancer patients and their family caregivers. Materials & Meth...

Building Trust

Building Trust

Michael caught a phisher last week, though he almost got caught himself. He was nearly snared while searching for an Internet security form to allow him to visit a restricted US government laboratory. As he completed the form, which had come up as a top search engine result, Michael noticed something strange about the form’s URL. It seemed correct but had an extra extension: instead of ending i...

Communication discrepancies between physicians and hospitalized patients.

BACKGROUND Hospital surveys indicate lack of patient awareness of diagnoses and treatments, yet physicians report they effectively communicate with patients. Gaps in understanding and communication could result in decreased quality of care. We sought to assess patient knowledge and perspectives of inpatient care and determine differences from physician assessments. METHODS Two validated quest...