Although online patient reviews (OPRs) are ubiquitous, there has been debate about
whether OPRs are associated with measures of health care outcomes. The majority of …

Objectives Increasingly, the credibility of online reviews is drawing critical attention due to
the lack of control mechanisms, the constant debate about fake reviews and, last but not …

In the era of big data, publicly available data from official hospital sources and data from
online reviews are easy to influence a patient's decision in choosing a hospital. However …

Making healthcare decisions is often difficult, challenging, and consequential for individuals.
To facilitate and inform provider selection decisions, healthcare organizations offer …

Background E-consultation is expected to improve the information level of patients, affect
patients' subsequent judgments of medical services, and guide patients to make a …

Do Crowdsourced Hospital Ratings Coincide with Hospital Compare Measures of Clinical and
Nonclinical Quality? - PMC Back to Top Skip to main content NIH NLM Logo Access keys …

Recently, federal agencies began providing data in healthcare public reports comparing the
quality of various healthcare providers to enable consumers to make informed choices about …

Objectives National mandatory public performance reporting (PPR) for Australian public
hospitals, including measures of cancer surgery waiting times, was introduced in 2011. PPR …

Problem definition: We address two key questions faced by patients, physicians, and policy
makers:(1) How do different types of patients benefit differently from elite surgeons? and (2) …

Objective Hospitals report cards (HRC) are publicly available Internet websites that provide
patients with quality-related information on hospitals and enable hospital comparisons. We …