Academic Rhinologists' Online Rating and Perception, Scholarly Productivity, and Industry Payments.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The emergence of popular online rating websites, social media platforms, and public databases for industry payments and scholarly outputs provide a complete physician online presence which may guide choice and satisfaction.

Methods

Websites of all U.S. otolaryngology academic institutions were queried for fellowship-trained rhinologists. Additional well-known and academically active rhinologists were identified by the senior author. Online ratings and comments were collected from Google, Healthgrades, Vitals, and RateMD websites, and weighted rating scores (RS) were calculated on a 1-5 scale.

Results

A total of 210 rhinologists with 16 ± 9 years of practice were included, where 6901 online ratings (33 ± 47 per rhinologist) provided an average RS of 4.3 ± 

SUBMITTER: Goshtasbi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8258306 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature