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SUBMITTER: Schlesinger MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6729132 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schlesinger Mark J MJ Rybowski Lise L Shaller Dale D Martino Steven S Parler Andrew M AM Grob Rachel R Finucane Melissa M Cerully Jennifer J
Health affairs (Project Hope) 20190301 3
For two decades, various initiatives have encouraged Americans to consider quality when choosing clinicians, both to enhance informed choice and to reduce disparities in access to high-quality providers. The literature portrays these efforts as largely ineffective. But this depiction overlooks two factors: the dramatic expansion since 2010 in the availability of patients' narratives about care and the growth of information seeking among consumers. Using surveys fielded in 2010, 2014, and 2015, w ...[more]