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Medicine 2.0'12 (Boston, USA)

The Benefit of Patient Narratives on Physician-Rating Websites
Uwe Sander*, Julia Hagemeister, Martin Emmert*

Background: Physician rating websites are gaining in popularity among citizens and patients seeking quality information about physicians. Most physician rating websites offer the possibility to write comments about a doctor (patient narratives). However, little knowledge is available whether patient narratives are valuable for patients to identify an appropriate doctor. Objective: To determine how often patient narratives are retrieved when using physician-rating websites or Google. We fu...

Medicine 2.0'13 (London, UK)

User Experience and Comprehensibility of German Public Reporting Portals That Present Hospital Outcome Data
Uwe Sander*, Susanne Steingräber, Martin Emmert*

Background: An increasing number of health portals publish information about the quality of health care providers. Outcomes data for hospitals, like mortality rates, are considered to be a valid source of information when choosing an appropriate provider. Limited information is available whether the information presentation approach which is used by different portals influences the interpretation of data and the user satisfaction. Objective: To investigate whether the information presentati...

An Analysis of Online Evaluations on Physician-Rating Websites (PRW) at the Example of the German Integrated Healthcare Network “Quality and Efficiency”
Martin Emmert*, Uwe Sander*, Veit Wambach

Background Physician-rating websites (PRWs) are currently gaining in popularity with the aim to increase transparency in the health care system. However, there is little published evidence about the number, distribution, nature, and results of available ratings. There is even less knowledge regarding the content of patient narratives. Objective: The objective of the present study was to investigate the current status of online physician evaluations on German PRWs. Therefore, we studied 1...

Medicine 2.0'14 Summit & World Congress (Maui, Hawaii, USA)

An Analysis Showing the Increasing Usage of Physician Rating Websites in Germany
Martin Emmert*, Florian Meier, Uwe Sander, Frank Halling

Background: Physician rating websites (PRW) have been addressed more and more in scientific literature and media within the last years. Although an increasing trend in usage is broadly assumed little evidence is available supporting this assumption. Objective: In this context this paper adds to the literature by presenting an analysis of all ratings for dentists which had been posted on the German PRW jameda in 2012 and 2013. Thereby, we provide both descriptive as well as analytical ana...

Full Paper Publications

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Eight Questions About Physician-Rating Websites: A Systematic Review
Martin Emmert, Uwe Sander, Frank Pisch
J Med Internet Res 2013;15(2):e24

Physician Choice Making and Characteristics Associated With Using Physician-Rating Websites: Cross-Sectional Study
Martin Emmert, Florian Meier, Frank Pisch, Uwe Sander
J Med Internet Res 2013;15(8):e187

Information Presentation Features and Comprehensibility of Hospital Report Cards: Design Analysis and Online Survey Among Users
Uwe Sander, Martin Emmert, Jochen Dickel, Nina Meszmer, Benjamin Kolb
J Med Internet Res 2015;17(3):e68

Do Health Care Providers Use Online Patient Ratings to Improve the Quality of Care? Results From an Online-Based Cross-Sectional Study
Martin Emmert, Nina Meszmer, Uwe Sander
J Med Internet Res 2016;18(9):e254

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