CD4 cell counts), clinical observations (e.g. In the different studies the health outcomes encompass different dimensions, such as objectively measured indicators (e.g. Therefore, the question arises whether trust in the health care professional is as well associated with patients’ health.Įmpirical evidence regarding this question comes from a growing number of studies that report correlations between trust measures and patients’ health outcome. Some of those conceptualize trust in the health care provider in relation to the patient-clinician relationship, which has previously been shown to be significantly associated with health outcomes across 13 RCTs. īesides such a deontological obligation for trust theoretical models describe mechanisms on how trust may influence health outcomes. In this regard, trust in the health care professional has been suggested to be the foundation for effective treatments and fundamental for patient-centered care. Patients have to trust their health care professionals to work in their best interest and outcome. Similar obligations are part of codes of conduct for other health care professionals such as nurses or psychotherapists.
The General Medical Council states that "(p)atients must be able to trust doctors with their lives and health" and that maintaining trust is one core guidance for physicians. Patients’ trust in their health care professional is central to clinical practice.
This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests:the authors declare that they have published on the topic of context effects before. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files.įunding: Johanna Birkhäuer's contributions to this study were supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation ( ), grant project (P0BSP1_155446). Received: SeptemAccepted: JanuPublished: February 7, 2017Ĭopyright: © 2017 Birkhäuer et al. (2017) Trust in the health care professional and health outcome: A meta-analysis. Citation: Birkhäuer J, Gaab J, Kossowsky J, Hasler S, Krummenacher P, Werner C, et al.
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