Trust, Health Care Relationships, and Chronic Illness

Trust, Health Care Relationships, and Chronic Illness

Trust in health care relationships is a key ingredient of effective, high-quality care. Although the indirect influence of trust on health outcomes has long been recognized, recent research has shown that trust has a direct effect on outcomes of care. Trust is important. However, the research on trust is disparate, organized around differing definitions, and primarily focused on patients' trust...

Case typologies, chronic illness and primary health care.

RATIONALE AND AIMS AND OBJECTIVES When assessing patients, clinicians use typologies developed through their own particular clinical experience. Our aim was to develop a typology, based on the patient's perspective and not specific to one illness, with the potential to enhance person-centred clinical follow-up of those living with chronic illness. METHODS We applied the qualitative comparativ...

Working sick: lessons of chronic illness for health care reform.

Chronic critical illness: the growing challenge to health care.

The chronically critically ill (CCI) comprise a rapidly growing population of patients who have survived acute critical illness, only to be left with ongoing organ dysfunctions requiring high levels of specialized care for months or years. In many ways, CCI is an "iatrogenic" process, reflecting the ability of modern life support technologies to keep patients alive for prolonged periods of tim...

How Chronic Illness Affects Family Relationships

11 This research project reviewed the current literature on how chronic illness affects an individual and the relationships within a family. The research demonstrates that chronic illness can have dramatic effects not only on the individual, but also on the relationships and psychological selves of a chronically ill person's family members. In addition, the research suggests that a person's cul...