BACKGROUND Patients' trust in physicians and in the medical profession is vital for a successful patient-physician relationship. Trust is especially salient in critical medical situations, such as serious side-effects, hospitalizations, and diagnoses of serious medical conditions, but most trust studies have been done with the general population or in routine primary care settings. This study e...

OBJECTIVE Patient's trust in their physician is crucial for desirable treatment outcomes such as satisfaction and adherence. In oncology, trust is possibly even more essential, due to the life-threatening nature of cancer. A review was undertaken of the current knowledge of the conceptualization, assessment, correlates, and consequences of cancer patients' trust in their physician. METHODS Th...

Patients in health maintenance organizations (HMOs) often trust their physicians less than those with other forms of insurance coverage. Recent studies have reported a backlash of criticism against managed care, especially HMOs. In response to this, some have argued that managed care has become more responsive to patients’ wishes. We use data from the Community Tracking Study (CTS) Household Su...

BACKGROUND Diabetes requires significant alterations to lifestyle and completion of self management tasks to obtain good control of disease. The objective of this study was to determine if patient trust is associated with reduced difficulty and hassles in altering lifestyle and completing self care tasks. METHODS A cross-sectional telephone survey and medical record review was performed to me...