Trust relations in health care: an agenda for future research
Journal of Health Organization and Management
ISSN: 1477-7266
Article publication date: 1 September 2006
Abstract
Purpose
The aim of this paper is to draw together suggestions for future research from the papers and from the discussion that took place at the workshop.
Design/methodology/approach
The suggestions are summarised under four broad themes.
Findings
At an international workshop on trust organised by the UK MRC Health Services Research Collaboration there was broad agreement that trust was still a salient issue in diverse health care contexts. The workshop proceedings identified a number of important questions for empirical research and several key conceptual, theoretical and methodological questions relating to trust that need to be addressed in support of or alongside this. The collection of papers in this volume starts to address some of these questions.
Originality/value
Considers trust relations in health care from patient, clinical, organisational and policy perspectives.
Keywords
Citation
Calnan, M., Rowe, R. and Entwistle, V. (2006), "Trust relations in health care: an agenda for future research", Journal of Health Organization and Management, Vol. 20 No. 5, pp. 477-484. https://doi.org/10.1108/14777260610701830
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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