Delayed care and unmet needs among health care system users: when does fiduciary trust in a physician matter?

From: Health Services Research | Date: December 1, 2005| Author: Cook, Karen S.; Mollborn, Stefanie; Stepanikova, Irena | Copyright information

Objectives. To examine whether fiduciary trust in a physician is related to unmet health care needs and delayed care among patients who have a regular physician, and to investigate whether the relationships between trust and unmet health care needs and delays in care are attenuated for disadvantaged patients who face structural obstacles to obtaining health care.

Data Sources/Study Setting. The 1998-1999 Community Tracking Study (CTS) Household Survey, a cross-sectional sample repr...

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