Online physician ratings fail to predict actual performance on measures of quality, value, and peer review
Author(s) -
Timothy J. Daskivich,
Justin Houman,
Garth Fuller,
Jeanne T. Black,
Hyung L. Kim,
Brennan Spiegel
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of the american medical informatics association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1527-974X
pISSN - 1067-5027
DOI - 10.1093/jamia/ocx083
Subject(s) - specialty , quartile , medicine , quality (philosophy) , family medicine , association (psychology) , observational study , medline , psychology , confidence interval , philosophy , epistemology , pathology , political science , law , psychotherapist
Patients use online consumer ratings to identify high-performing physicians, but it is unclear if ratings are valid measures of clinical performance. We sought to determine whether online ratings of specialist physicians from 5 platforms predict quality of care, value of care, and peer-assessed physician performance.
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