Is Anyone Paying Attention to Physician Report Cards? The Impact of Increased Availability on Consumers' Awareness and Use of Physician Quality Information.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine if the release of health care report cards focused on physician practice quality measures leads to changes in consumers' awareness and use of this information.

Primary data sources

Data from two rounds of a survey of the chronically ill adult population conducted in 14 regions across the United States, combined with longitudinal information from a public reporting tracking database. Both data were collected as part of the evaluation for Aligning Forces for Quality, a nationwide quality improvement initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Study design

Using a longitudinal design and an individual-level fixed effects modeling approach, we estimated the impact of community public reporting efforts, measured by the availability and a

SUBMITTER: Shi Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5517682 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature