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A qualitative study of patient (dis)trust in public and private hospitals: the importance of choice and pragmatic acceptance for trust considerations in South Australia

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, July 2015
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Title
A qualitative study of patient (dis)trust in public and private hospitals: the importance of choice and pragmatic acceptance for trust considerations in South Australia
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, July 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12913-015-0967-0
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Authors

Paul R. Ward, Philippa Rokkas, Clinton Cenko, Mariastella Pulvirenti, Nicola Dean, Simon Carney, Patrick Brown, Michael Calnan, Samantha Meyer

Abstract

This paper explores the nature and reasoning for (dis)trust in Australian public and private hospitals. Patient trust increases uptake of, engagement with and optimal outcomes from healthcare services and is therefore central to health practice, policy and planning. A qualitative study in South Australia, including 36 in-depth interviews (18 from public and 18 from private hospitals). 'Private patients' made active choices about both their hospital and doctor, playing the role of the 'consumer', where trust and choice went hand in hand. The reputation of the doctor and hospital were key drivers of trust, under the assumption that a better reputation equates with higher quality care. However, making a choice to trust a doctor led to personal responsibility and the additional requirement for self-trust. 'Public patients' described having no choice in their hospital or doctor. They recognised 'problems' in the public healthcare system but accepted and even excused these as 'part of the system'. In order to justify their trust, they argued that doctors in public hospitals tried to do their best in difficult circumstances, thereby deserving of trust. This 'resigned trust' may stem from a lack of alternatives for free health care and thus a dependence on the system. These two contrasting models of trust within the same locality point to the way different configurations of healthcare systems, hospital experiences, insurance coverage and related forms of 'choice' combine to shape different formats of trust, as patients act to manage their vulnerability within these contexts.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 119 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 28 24%
Student > Bachelor 12 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 9%
Student > Postgraduate 10 8%
Professor 8 7%
Other 24 20%
Unknown 26 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 21 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 18 15%
Social Sciences 16 13%
Business, Management and Accounting 10 8%
Psychology 8 7%
Other 14 12%
Unknown 32 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 August 2019.
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#1,968,399
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Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#739
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#27,004
of 263,166 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#15
of 111 outputs
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