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ArticleJournal of hospital medicine2025

Rebuilding trust in public health and medicine in a time of declining trust in science.

Marianne Udow-Phillips, Joe Smyser, Natasha Bagdasarian

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Article in Journal of hospital medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Patients might distrust honest doctors.Journal of hospital medicine · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Marianne Udow-PhillipsDepartment of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1672-3273
Joe SmyserPublic Good Projects (PGP), San Diego, California, USA.
Natasha BagdasarianMichigan Department of Health and Human Services, Lansing, Michigan, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1133-8309

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Trust in public health and medical practitioners has declined since COVID-19. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, poor communication by medical and public health professionals coincident with the rise of social media enabled unverified, often erroneous information to spread quickly and widely. Providing accurate, fact-based information is imperative to save lives and promote health. Using a robust, evidence-based approach to tracking the spread of information and partnering with trusted messengers, states can take a leadership role in combatting misinformation and safeguarding the public's health.

Indexed as

COVID-19Public HealthTrustCommunicationHumansInformation DisseminationPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Social Media

Identifiers

PMID40462379
PMCPMC12217403

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