Will doctor rating sites improve standards of care? Yes

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 338, Issue 7696, 2009, Pages

  Bacon, Neil ^a  

^a Summertown Pavilion   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DOCTOR RATING SITE; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERNET; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RATING SCALE;

EID: 84859003647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.b1030     Document Type: Article

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