Trust, knowledge, regard, and loyalty are the essential components of an effective patient-provider relationship. These factors can have an impact on patient outcomes.

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Patient-provider relationship is the relationship between a patient and the doctor or healthcare professional providing them medical care. 

Patient-Provider Relationships in Healthcare

Chipidza, F. E., Wallwork, R. S., & Stern, T. A. (2015) Impact of the Doctor-Patient Relationship. Prim Care Companion CNS Disord, 17(5). doi: 10.4088/PCC.15f01840

Impact of the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Due to potential experiences with stigmatization and discrimination, sexual and racial/ethnic minorities report poorer health behaviors and outcomes AND decreased use of healthcare services compared to White heterosexuals and heterosexuals of same race/ethnicity.


Health and Healthcare Disparities for LGBT Women and Men of Color

When treating depression in a primary care setting, the patient-provider relationship is critical to achieving positive treatment outcomes.  A few different things play a role in the quality of a patient-provider relationship, namely the beliefs of the patient and the characteristics of the provider.  

The role of patient beliefs about depression and provider characteristics in patient-provider relationships

There is an extreme lack of research on attitudes of the type of doctor and specific doctors vs. doctors in general, especially with this population. The formation of these attitudes have lasting impacts on health psychology and quality of care.

The Effect of Setting and Doctor/Patient Relationship on Attitudes Towards Doctors and Medicine in Maternity Patients

While pregnancy is a unique time that provides an opportunity for strengthening the patient-provider relationship due to routine prenatal care, many women are disadvantaged in this regard due to their overweight or obese status.  There is evidence to suggest that many women with overweight or obesity have poorer quality patient-provider relationships. 

Patient-provider relationships in overweight or obese pregnant women

There is an extreme lack of research that concretely defines what constitutes an adolescent friendship and an abundance of research about the many benefits adolescent friendships have on adolescent health. This study wanted to apply these benefits to Nursing and Nursing Literature

The Essentiality of Defining Adolescent Friendship in Nursing Care and Research

An exchange of mutually understood information between the provider and their patient and shared participation in health decision making.

Patient-Provider Communication 

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Patient-Provider Relationships References

The present study suggests that physicians, specifically surgeons, seem to restrain feelings of empathy, which indicates that there is a vital issue among doctors associated with patient distress, professional pressure to be efficient, and one's own ability to process the emotional aspect of patient care.  

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