Patient satisfaction profiling of individual physicians: Impact of panel status

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 553-561

  Murff, Harvey J ^a   Orav, E John ^b   Lee, Thomas H ^c   Bates, David W ^b   Fairchild, David G ^b,d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Primary care; Profiling; Quality of care; Satisfaction; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MANAGED CARE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BOSTON; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 7944231276     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2003.00482.x     Document Type: Review

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