Online Doctor Reviews: Do They Track Surgeon Volume, a Proxy for Quality of Care?
Journal of Medical Internet ResearchPublished 10 April 2012Open access
Jeffrey Segal, M Sacopulos, Virgil L. Sheets, Irish Thurston, Kendra Brooks, Ryan Puccia
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Online review websites provide a rich source of data that may be able to track quality of care, although the effect size is weak and not consistent for all review website metrics.
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Online review websites provide a rich source of data that may be able to track quality of care, although the effect size is weak and not consistent for all review website metrics.
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Health ProfessionsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
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