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Findings from a study published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association suggest that online ratings of specialist physicians may not objectively correlate with quality of care or peer assessment of clinical performance.
The authors conducted an observational study of 78 physicians and assessed the association of consumer ratings with specialty-specific performance scores, primary care physician peer-review scores, and administrator peer-review scores. They found no significant association across the five most popular online platforms, although patient ratings of physicians tended to be consistent across all platforms. Learn more...
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