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Trust and the Ethics of Health Care Institutions
Author(s) -
Goold Susan Dorr
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3527779
Subject(s) - institution , health care , organizational ethics , medical ethics , psychology , public relations , nursing , political science , medicine , law , psychiatry
Though trust is essential to relationships between people, including that between patient and clinician, its role in organizational ethics is largely unexplored. Nonetheless, trust is also ideally a part of the relationship between patient and health care institution, both because it is desirable in and of itself, and because it makes for better medical care.