Professional-Patient Boundaries: a National Survey of Primary Care Physicians' Attitudes and Practices.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The essence of humanism in medicine and health care is relationships-caring relationships between clinicians and patients. While raising concerns regarding professional-patient boundaries has positively contributed to our understanding and prevention of potentially harmful boundary violations, there is controversy about which types of relationships, caring acts, and practices are acceptable versus cross boundary lines.

Objective

To examine primary care physicians' practices and attitudes regarding acts that have been questioned as potentially "inappropriate" or "unethical" crossing of professional-patient boundaries.

Design

Surveys conducted via in-person polling or electronic and mailed paper submissions from April 2016 to July 2017. We calculated descript

SUBMITTER: Reyes Nieva H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7018879 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature