Websites offering peer-based healthcare potentially offer valuable new sources of health information and advice, but how do we decide which peer-to-peer sites to trust? We explore those sites offering different forms of peer-based patient experience (PEx) via an online questionnaire. The questionnaire revealed a paradox: patients like PEx and are drawn to sites containing PEx, but are then less...

BACKGROUND It is widely accepted that patient generates overall satisfaction with medical service and sub satisfaction on the basis of response to patient's trust in medical service and response to patient's attitude towards health policy in China. This study aimed to investigate the correlations between patient's trust in medical service/patient's attitude towards health policy and patient's o...

Objectives: This study was designed to investigate psychometric properties of the Jefferson Scale of Patient Perceptions of Physician Empathy (JSPPPE), and to examine correlations between its scores and measures of overall satisfaction with physicians, personal trust, and indicators of patient compliance. Methods: Research participants included 535 out-patients (between 18-75 years old, 66% fem...

This review article seeks to highlight some contentious issues surrounding the transfer of medical knowledge and the ever evolving doctor-patient relationship. Using primarily articles and reports found using database searches, a review was conducted on several areas, namely; the doctorpatient relationship, trust, evidence based practice and power. From this analysis several conclusions were dr...