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¶ … physician reports cards fair and balanced? Take a position on this issue and explain your view. Provide at least two examples from references that support your position.
According to my opinion the answer is fair and balance at some point and unfair and unbalanced at the same time because the online sites having option rate your doctors receives very few reactions and they are mostly responded by unhappy patients who are unhappy with something. The reason behind their unhappiness is they did not get what they wanted. On the other side, few happy patients visit these sites and talk about it but unhappy patients often visit these sites. For Example: 10 happy patients rated the doctors and all are good ratings so it would be not wise to select that particular doctor on the basis of few ratings. It is fair and balances in other aspect as well that patients would know about their treatment like how they talk with patients, how carefully they treat their patients, how much time they give to their patients, how much patients keep waiting (appointment problems). The data released by insurance company claims data are misleading as it does not about reflective of care. Metrics containing information regarding patients who got cure from blood pressure and how many have gotten mammograms paints the picture in favor of patients than the doctors as it more say about patients. Another problem in rating physicians is of selection bias. Good physicians often attend sicker and more difficult patients so in response they get negative outcomes if unprocessed...
For Example: It is possible for unhappy patients to release their frustration which they experienced might be misleading and downgrade the rating of physician so it would not be a smart choice to make my decision on the ratings given by patients. For Example, development and advancement in medical treatments are rapidly changing so there are chances that report card may select old information on treatments which will be misleading because that do not accurately paint the picture of treatment which is being delivered to patients after advancement. So one should make sure the information used must be updated (Hall & Kidd, 2000). The other problem in analyzing the fair and balanced physician reports is that what should be considered "meaningful information." For instance, the patient who had a negative medical experience may dent the overall performance of the physician because one negative point overweight the positives. To put it differently, Physicians are human being so they can make mistakes. Suppose in their whole life they successfully treat every patient but one time by mistake they made mistake which will impact on his whole experience and patients would negatively perceive it (Fielding & Sutherland, 1999).
Do physician report cards provide information consumers need to make medical decisions? Why or why not? Explain your answer.
"Physician report card" has become an important tool to assist patients in making decisions regarding their health care. Patients heavily rely on…
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Fielding, J. & Sutherland, C. (1999). Community health report cards:: Results of a national survey, American journal of preventive, retrieved May 30, 2011 from http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0749379799000331
Frank, E. & Brevan, J. (2000). Physician disclosure of healthy personal behaviors improves credibility and ability to motivate., Archives of family medicine, retrieved May 30, 2011 from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10728118
Hall, M. & Kidd, E. (2000). Disclosure of physician incentives: do practices satisfy purposes?, Health Affairs, retreifved May 30, 2011 from http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/19/4/156.short
Steve, F. (2010). Three Reasons Physicians (and Patients) Can Be Thankful for Online Doctor Ratings, retrieved May 30, 2011 from http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101116005303/en/Reasons-Physicians-Patients-Thankful-Online-Doctor-Ratings
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