Improving Health Care with Publicly Reported Data

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-10-15

Summary:

"But do people use that information to make choices?  Does it change where they get their care? There is little evidence that this is the case.  While the study mentioned earlier showed hospitals respond to this such data, that same study showed that consumers and purchasers of healthcare rarely search out the information and do not understand or trust it.  It had a small, although increasing, impact on their decision making.  According to another study, there is little evidence that patients use publicly reported data to make a choice.  There are several reasons that the authors of the study felt this was the case.   Among those reasons were that consumers didn’t believe they had choice because of their insurance provider, consumers couldn’t understand the quality data (the reports are poorly designed), and that consumers don’t trust the information provided...."

Link:

https://www.smerconish.com/news/2019/10/14/improving-health-care-with-publicly-reporting-data

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oa.new oa.medicine oa.data oa.incentives oa.ethics oa.metrics

Date tagged:

10/15/2019, 09:21

Date published:

10/15/2019, 05:21