PHYSICIANS SHOULD CREATE COLlaborative partnerships with patients (and families) in which clinical decisions are made using the best available evidence, consistent with patients’ values, goals, and capabilities. However, this ideal is rarely achieved. Physicians typically spend less than 1 minute out of a 20-minute visit discussing treatment and planning. Informed decision making occurs in only...

The purpose of this study was to assess race differences (African Americans and Caucasians) in aspects of the patient-physician relationship, and then determine how the patientphysician relationship influences patient satisfaction, diabetes self-care behaviors and diabetes knowledge among adults with diabetes. Participants consisted of 99 adults with diabetes who were currently receiving treatm...

The physician-patient relationship has undergone enormous changes over the last decade, highlighted by the transition from physician-dominance to patient-centeredness. Accompanied with this drastic shift in patients’ role comes more responsibilities for us. Unfortunately, due to the rapidity of this transformation and the lack of education regarding their new responsibilities, it seems as if pa...

CONTEXT Trust is the cornerstone of the patient-physician relationship. Payment methods that place physicians at financial risk have raised concerns about patients' trust in physicians to act in patients' best interests. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the extent to which methods of physician payment are related to patient trust. DESIGN Cross-sectional telephone interview survey done between January ...

BACKGROUND The importance of a sustained relationship between patients and physicians is a defining characteristic of family medicine. This study examined whether there is an association among the length of the patient-physician relationship, various attributes of primary care, and the delivery of clinical preventive services to Medicare beneficiaries. METHODS The data source for this study w...

The traditional hospital-physician relationship in the United States was an implicit symbiotic collaboration sheltered by financial success. The health care economic challenges of the 1980s and 1990s unmasked the weaknesses of this relationship as hospitals and doctors often found themselves in direct competition in the struggle to maintain revenue. We recount and examine the history of the lar...