BACKGROUND For many eServices, end-user trust is a crucial prerequisite for use. Within the context of Telemedicine, the role of trust has hardly ever been studied. In this study, we explored what determines trust in portals that facilitate rehabilitation therapy, both from the perspective of the patient and the healthcare professional. METHODS We held two focus groups with patients (total n ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether an intervention designed to inform and guide patients in choosing a primary care provider (PCP) could increase satisfaction and trust. DESIGN A randomized controlled trial conducted at the Santa Clara Medical Center of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Northern California. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients needing a PCP were randomly assigned to Inform...

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the eff ect of physician patient-centeredness on patient trust across randomly selected groups of patients from an inner city medical practice serving a preponderance of minority and socioeconomically-disadvantaged patients. METHODS: A two-factor multigroup structural equation modeling design was employed, with randomly selected test (N = 300) ...

H. Strack, S. Wefel, P. Molitor, M. Räckers, J. Becker, J. Dittmann, R. Altschaffel, J. Marx Gómez, N. Brehm, A. Dieckmann 1 Hochschule Harz, Fachbereich Automatisierung und Informatik, [email protected] 2 Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Informatik, [email protected] 3 Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Informatik, paul.molitor@i...

In this article, the authors explore the home care experience as described by older physically impaired individuals and their caregiving spouses. Separate face-to-face semistructured interviews were carried out with each spouse from nine couples. Analysis of the interview data revealed four themes. For care receivers the themes were Independence and Developing a Trusting Relationship With Home ...

Grid computing is a next evolutionary level of distributed computing. It integrates the users and resources which are scattered in various domains. The Grid and it’s related technologies will be used only if the users and the providers are mutually trusting each other. The system must be as reliable and robust as of their own. The reliability can be defined as the probability of any process to ...

This paper explores potential improvements to the trust modelling of agents in multi-agent systems when a social network of advisors is employed as part of the trust modelling, and in particular, examines means of optimizing the number of advisors that should be maintained in the social network. We propose three such improvements, two directly relating to the limit of advisor network size by ei...

OBJECTIVE To better understand the origins, manifestations and current policy responses to patient-physician mistrust in China. DESIGN Qualitative study using in-depth interviews focused on personal experiences of patient-physician mistrust and trust. SETTING Guangdong Province, China. PARTICIPANTS One hundred and sixty patients, patient family members, physicians, nurses and hospital adm...

Patient-provider relationships influence diabetes care; less is known about their impact on online patient portal use. Diabetes patients rated provider communication and trust. In this study, we linked responses to electronic medical record data on being a registered portal user and using secure messaging (SM). We specified regression models to evaluate main effects on portal use, and subgroup ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the effect of physicians' dress on patient confidence and trust. DESIGN A prospective crossover trial involving physicians dressed in "respectable" versus "retro" attire. SETTING A general medicine ward at a tertiary hospital. PARTICIPANTS 12 male general physicians and 1680 patients. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Patient trust and confidence as measured by a questionnaire...