The impact of contract service policy and doctor communication skills on rural patient-doctor trust relationship in the village clinics of three counties

Abstract Background Trust is regarded as the cornerstone of the doctor-patient relationship in the world of medicine; it determines the decisions patients make when choosing doctors and influences patients’ compliance with recommended treatments. In China, patient-doctor trust acts as a thermometer...

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Main Authors: Linni Gu, Jianjun Deng, Huiwen Xu, Shengfa Zhang, Min Gao, Zhiyong Qu, Weijun Zhang, Donghua Tian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-03-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-019-3875-x