Balancing trust and power: a qualitative study of GPs perceptions and strategies for retaining patients in preventive health checks

摘要

ObjectiveLittle is known about how strategies of retaining patients are acted out by general practitioners (GPs) in the clinical encounter. With this study, we apply Grimens’ (2009) analytical connection between trust and power to explore how trust and power appear in preventive health checks from the GPs’ perspectives, and in what way trust and power affect and/or challenge strategies towards retaining patients without formal education.