Public Attitudes Regarding Hospitals and Physicians Encouraging Donations From Grateful Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Philanthropy is an increasingly important source of support for health care institutions. There is little empirical evidence to inform ethical guidelines.

Objective

To assess public attitudes regarding specific practices used by health care institutions to encourage philanthropic donations from grateful patients.

Design, setting, and participants

Using the Ipsos KnowledgePanel, a probability-based sample representative of the US population, a survey solicited opinions from a primary cohort representing the general population and 3 supplemental cohorts (with high income, cancer, and with heart disease, respectively).

Exposures

Web-based questionnaire.

Main outcomes and measures

Descriptive analyses (with percentages weighted to make the sample

SUBMITTER: Jagsi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11901813 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature