IMPORTANCE The otolaryngologist's online reputation is of increasing importance. Physician rating websites are becoming increasingly prevalent, and patients are using them to evaluate their current and future physicians. OBJECTIVE To evaluate patterns in online ratings of otolaryngologists. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS From May 1, 2013, through June 1, 2013, lists of academic program f...

OBJECTIVE We sought to determine whether "best hospitals," as defined by the US News & World Report or HealthGrades, have lower mortality rates than all other American hospitals for cancer surgery. DESIGN Retrospective cross-sectional study. SETTING Medicare database (2005-2006). PATIENTS All patients with a diagnosis of malignancy who underwent pancreatectomy, esophagectomy, and colectom...

A sensation was created throughout the world when Institute of Medicine (IOM) attributed up to 98000 deaths due to preventable medical errors in United States.1 Methodology of this report was challenged but the magnitude of the problem was highlighted again when a conservative estimate by Institute of Medicine and Healthgrades showed that 400,000-1.2 million errorinduced deaths had taken place ...

Online physician reviews (OPRs) critically influence the patients’ consultation decisions on rating websites. The increasing number of OPRs contributes to challenge information overload. worth development needs be explored further. Based collected from RateMDs and Healthgrades, Plutchik’s wheel human emotions framework, purpose this study was examine impact emotional intensity (positive negativ...

Background: The goal of this study was to evaluate current physician ratings websites (PRWs) to determine whichfactors correlated to higher physician scores and evaluate physician perspective of PRWs.Methods: This study evaluated two popular websites, Healthgrades.com and Vitals.com, to gather information onpracticing physician members of the American Shoulder and Elbow Society database. A surv...

OBJECTIVES Publicly available hospital quality reports seek to inform consumers of important healthcare quality and affordability attributes, and may inform consumer decision-making. To understand how much consumers search for such information online on one Internet search engine, whether they mention such information in social media and how positively they view this information. SETTING AND ...

Abstract Introduction Online provider rating websites are an increasingly popular medium for patients to provide reviews & feedback and obtain information about varying healthcare providers. There have yet be studies on what factors significantly impact sleep medicine ratings. Healthgrades is a database with over 11 million patient reviews. This study analyzes various dimensions determine c...

T he American Society of Nephrology will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2016. At the time of this commemoration, the United States will spend approximately 20% of its gross domestic product on health care, the Medicare program will face bankruptcy, and an estimated 67,000 people will have end-stage renal disease (1-3). Compared with other countries, the United States spends considerably more...

I t has been over 10 years since the Institute of Medicine (IOM) re-ignited the patient safety movement in the United States with their publication ‘To Err is Human’. Five years after that publication there were modest improvements in certain indicators like death in low mortality Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs), iatrogenic pneumothorax, and certain postoperative complications. At that time the...