- Physician Compare, a U.S. website created to help patients find high-quality doctors, is missing so much information on individual providers that it may not be helpful, a new study suggests.
"Patients should be able to use the quality information to distinguish higher from lower performing clinicians," Li said by email.In the current study, only about 21 percent of primary care providers reported some individual or group information related to outcomes from their practice. But almost all of this data was at the practice level, making it hard for patients to know who might be a better or worse choice among several physicians at one clinic.
"Given its voluntary nature, it is not a surprise few doctors submit to this platform," said Dr. Vineet Arora of the University of Chicago Medicine. Currently, there are no meaningful, publicly available data for patients to use in assessing physician performance and quality, said Dr. Karl Bilimoria, director of the Surgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Center.at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago.
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