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

• Main Authors: Linni Gu (Author), Jianjun Deng (Author), Huiwen Xu (Author), Shengfa Zhang (Author), Min Gao (Author), Zhiyong Qu (Author), Weijun Zhang (Author), Donghua Tian (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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 thermom...