Procedure-specific concerns may raise new issues of trust or distrust that impact the ongoing physician-patient relationship that should be explored in future research.
If there is ongoing cholangitis, physicians should treat cholangitis and also take some precautions to protect the patient against recurrent cholangitis attacks.
Elements of trust and satisfaction, important to the ongoing patient-physician relationship, are also important to examine in the context of continuity.
The benefits of longitudinal clinics include providing opportunities to follow patients over time to develop ongoing patient-physician relationships and learn about the unique challenges of managing chronic disease [ 2, 3].
In the remainder of this section we examine the ways in which participants raised issues of trust and distrust in the focus group discussions, and ultimately their reflections on how patients' decisions to engage in medical tourism may impact the ongoing trusting physician-patient relationship.
If the goal is not achieved by the ongoing treatment, the physician must step forward to the following types of treatment.
The primary endpoint was the prevalence of anemia as determined using a prespecified algorithm: hemoglobin (Hb) ≤10 g/dL on/within 3 days prior to visit; ongoing anemia treatment; physician diagnosis of anemia, together with ≥1 anemia symptom.
My purpose has been to encourage patient safety as an integral part of ongoing assessment of physicians, an interest sparked 15 years ago while writing Wall of Silence, the first book to tell the human story behind the Institute of Medicine report, To Err is Human.
Collaborations were usually ongoing with many physicians and depended equally on both patient preference and diagnosis.
