Health care public reporting utilization - user clusters, web trails, and usage barriers on Germany's public reporting portal Weisse-Liste.de.
Background: Quality of care public reporting provides structural, process and outcome information to facilitate hospital choice and strengthen quality competition. Yet, evidence indicates that patients rarely use this information in their decision-making, due to limited awareness of the data and com...
| Publicado en: | BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making Vol. 17; pp. 1 - 16 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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BioMed Central
4/21/2017
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