Scores on the Trust in Physician Scale (TPS), a test of interpersonal trust in the physician from the patients’ perspective, were plotted for Caucasian and for African American subjects. On the 0 to 100 scale, mean TPS score for the 108 Caucasian subjects was () which was significantly higher than the mean TPS score for the 87 non-Caucasians, TPS ; . The dark bars represent mean scores and whiskers indicate SD.
