Association Between Web-Based Physician Ratings and Physician Disciplinary Convictions: Retrospective Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physician rating websites are commonly used by the public, yet the relationship between web-based physician ratings and health care quality is not well understood.

Objective

The objective of our study was to use physician disciplinary convictions as an extreme marker for poor physician quality and to investigate whether disciplined physicians have lower ratings than nondisciplined matched controls.

Methods

This was a retrospective national observational study of all disciplined physicians in Canada (751 physicians, 2000 to 2013). We searched ratings (2005-2015) from the country's leading online physician rating website for this group, and for 751 matched controls according to gender, specialty, practice years, and location. We compared overall ratings (out

SUBMITTER: Liu JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7256745 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature