ABIM Foundation Launches Challenge to Identify Practices That Foster Trust in Health Care

Trust is essential to effective health care, and research has shown that the quality of health outcomes depends on a stable foundation of trusting relationships. Yet trust in health care has been in steady decline in the United States over the past several decades.

The ABIM Foundation has launched their Trust Practice Challenge to address this “trust gap” through the lens of medical professionalism, by identifying practices that foster trust and trustworthiness in health care, such as disclosure of medical errors and subsequent apologies; guarantees of quality service levels; and endorsement of clinicians during care transition. A “practice” could involve interactions between clinicians and patients, among clinicians, between clinicians and health systems/hospitals, or between patients and health systems/hospitals.

As vital members of the health care system, the ASCP Effective Test Utilization Steering Committee encourages professionals in the field of pathology and laboratory medicine to participate in this challenge through sharing innovations involving you and your organization. 

Winning entries will become part of a compendium of replicable and scalable practices that have helped build or rebuild trust in various aspects of the health care system and will be presented at the 2019 ABIM Foundation Forum in August. Go to ABIMF Trust Practice Challenge to learn more and to download a submission form. The submission deadline is Thursday, February 28, 2019.

If you submit an entry, please let ASCP staff know by sending a note to Edna Garcia, MPH, Director, Scientific Engagement and Research at (edna.garcia@ascp.org).