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Trust relations in health care: an agenda for future research

Michael Calnan (MRC HSRC, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK)
Rosemary Rowe (MRC HSRC, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK)
Vikki Entwistle (Alliance for Self Care Research, Social Dimensions of Health Institute, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK)

Journal of Health Organization and Management

ISSN: 1477-7266

Article publication date: 1 September 2006

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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.

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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

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2006, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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