Developments in the Frequency of Ratings and Evaluation Tendencies: A Review of German Physician Rating Websites.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physician rating websites (PRWs) have been developed to allow all patients to rate, comment, and discuss physicians' quality online as a source of information for others searching for a physician. At the beginning of 2010, a sample of 298 randomly selected physicians from the physician associations in Hamburg and Thuringia were searched for on 6 German PRWs to examine the frequency of ratings and evaluation tendencies.

Objective

The objective of this study was to examine (1) the number of identifiable physicians on German PRWs; (2) the number of rated physicians on German PRWs; (3) the average and maximum number of ratings per physician on German PRWs; (4) the average rating on German PRWs; (5) the website visitor ranking positions of German PRWs; and (6) how thes

SUBMITTER: McLennan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5591403 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature