title: Linking patients' trust in physicians to health outcomes.
abstract: Trust in the patient-physician relationship has been widely discussed, but in-depth and systematic analyses are scarce. A model is proposed to explore the trust-outcomes relationship by identifying the mediating effects of compliance, patient disclosure, placebo effect and physician's caring behaviour. The consequences of patients' trust in physicians and the practical implications of trust to quality patient care are presented.
authors.affiliation: Ophthalmology Department, YongKang Veterans Hospital, Graduate School of Management, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Ying-Yang
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Julia L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000639:trends; D010349:Patient Compliance; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000639:trends; D035502:Trust; D014342:Truth Disclosure