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Its website evaluates roughly 500 million claims from federal and private reviews and data to rate and rank doctors based on complication rates at the hospitals where they practice, experience, and patient satisfaction. [8] Its analysis is based on approximately 40 million Medicare discharges for the most recent three-year time period available ...
RateMDs.com is a free website allowing users to submit and read reviews of doctors, dentists, psychologists, urgent care centers, group practices, hospitals and other healthcare facilities. Founded in 2004, it has gained popularity as a platform for patients to research and share their experiences about healthcare providers.
The company also runs the website SurgeonRatings.org. [10] Between 2007 and 2009, the company published “a demonstration project surveying patients about their experience of care with their doctors using the Clinician/Group CAHPS Survey instrument developed by the US Agency for Health Care Research and Quality,” according to Robert Mayer. [6]
However, Schnabel recommends being wary of one-off patient reviews. “You don’t know if it’s a singular situation or a repetitive pattern. So don’t focus on one review; get the overall ...
The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) is a Boston-based independent nonprofit organization that seeks to place a value on medical care by providing comprehensive clinical and cost-effectiveness analyses of treatments, tests, and procedures. [1] ICER was founded in about 2005 by physician-researcher Steven D. Pearson. [1]
A 2012 literature review of 50 academic journal articles about the use of social media by clinicians [44] remarked that Medpedia had "launched in 2009 with substantial institutional backing" but that the authors "did not find articles reporting success metrics" for it. Around January 2013 the site abruptly closed.
Reviews in 2008 and 2009 review of research on the effects of health care ratings found that there was evidence that public ratings drove hospitals to improve their performance, but there was limited evidence that they affected how consumers choose health care providers or insurance plans, or that they changed the performance of individual ...
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