Comparative Quality Indicators for Hospital Choice: Do General Practitioners Care?

ABSTRACT:

Context

The strategy of publicly reporting quality indicators is being widely promoted through public policies as a way to make health care delivery more efficient.

Objective

To assess general practitioners' (GPs) use of the comparative hospital quality indicators made available by public services and the media, as well as GPs' perceptions of their qualities and usefulness.

Method

A telephone survey of a random sample representing all self-employed GPs in private practice in France.

Results

A large majority (84.1%-88.5%) of respondents (n = 503; response rate of 56%) reported that they never used public comparative indicators, available in the mass media or on government and non-government Internet sites, to influence their patients' hospital choices. The vast

SUBMITTER: Ferrua M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4740419 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature