Where Trust Flourishes: Perceptions of Clinicians Who Trust Their Organizations and Are Trusted by Their Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Trust is an essential component of health care. Clinicians need to trust organizational leaders to provide a safe and effective work environment, and patients need to trust their clinicians to deliver high-quality care while addressing their health care needs. We sought to determine perceived characteristics of clinics by clinicians who trust their organizations and whose patients have trust in them.

Methods

We used baseline data from the Healthy Work Place trial, a randomized trial of interventions to improve work life in 34 Midwest and East Coast primary care clinics, to identify clinic characteristics associated with high clinician and patient trust.

Results

The study included 165 clinicians with 1,132 patients. High trust by clinicians with patients who tr

SUBMITTER: Linzer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8575506 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature