Description Editor David Shore is the founding director of the Harvard School of Public Health's Trust Initiative The lack of trust in our healthcare system brings ominous results, from decreasing health outcomes to increasing costs, from organisation inefficiencies to a pervasive pattern of litigation. This will only worsen as healthcare becomes subject to greater market mechanisms, and as patients, providers, and payers view each other with increasing suspicion. Healthcare professionals are just now coming to realise what other professionals have known for years: trust is earned, not assumed. The Trust Crisis represents the first comprehensive survey of the causes and consequences of declining trust in healthcare, and more importantly, it provides suggestions for restoring the trust. Shore brings together an unparalleled collection of healthcare leaders for this volume. Chapter authors include Donald Berwick, Robert Blendon, Lucian Leape, and George Lundberg. The book also features an introduction by Cokie and Steve Roberts. Causes, consequences, and cures for the crisis in trust are specifically addressed. Critical areas treated by the authors include: · systemic conditions that lead to medical errors, and remedies for promoting quality of care · outdated modes of doctor-patient communication that hinder compliance · novel modes of interaction to improve satisfaction · patient-centered care and metrics to evaluate its presence or absence · media commu