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Insights Into the Impact of Online Physician Reviews on Patients’ Decision Making: Randomized Experiment

More precisely, this study investigates how a more or less factually written online physician review, in conjunction with a low or high number of reviews for the rated physician, affects the attitude toward the rated physician, the perceived expertise and trustworthiness

Sonja Grabner-Kräuter, Martin KJ Waiguny

J Med Internet Res 2015;17(4):e93

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A Fuzzy-Match Search Engine for Physician Directories

We call this gold-standard data set the “Challenge Data Set of Marshfield Physician Names”.

Majid Rastegar-Mojarad, Christopher Kadolph, Zhan Ye, Daniel Wall, Narayana Murali, Simon Lin

JMIR Med Inform 2014;2(2):e30

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The Effect of Online Effort and Reputation of Physicians on Patients’ Choice: 3-Wave Data Analysis of China’s Good Doctor Website

Physician efforts imply the amount of time and energy that a physician spends online.

Zhaohua Deng, Ziying Hong, Wei Zhang, Richard Evans, Yanyan Chen

J Med Internet Res 2019;21(3):e10170

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The Impact of Web-Based Ratings on Patient Choice of a Primary Care Physician Versus a Specialist: Randomized Controlled Experiment

Siyue Li, Austin Hubner

J Med Internet Res 2019;21(6):e11188

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The Validity of Online Patient Ratings of Physicians: Analysis of Physician Peer Reviews and Patient Ratings

For these three sites, numeric rating scales range from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent) and cover perceptions of physician knowledge, helpfulness, punctuality, and staff.

Robert J McGrath, Jennifer Lewis Priestley, Yiyun Zhou, Patrick J Culligan

Interact J Med Res 2018;7(1):e8

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Ethical Principles for Physician Rating Sites

Daniel Strech

J Med Internet Res 2011;13(4):e113

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Influence of Health Literacy on Effects of Patient Rating Websites: Survey Study Using a Hypothetical Situation and Fictitious Doctors

Peter Johannes Schulz, Fabia Rothenfluh

J Med Internet Res 2020;22(4):e14134

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Physician Choice Making and Characteristics Associated With Using Physician-Rating Websites: Cross-Sectional Study

Thus far, no peer-reviewed research has focused on the influence of physician-rating websites when choosing a physician in the outpatient sector [28].

Martin Emmert, Florian Meier, Frank Pisch, Uwe Sander

J Med Internet Res 2013;15(8):e187

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Analysis of 4999 Online Physician Ratings Indicates That Most Patients Give Physicians a Favorable Rating

Bassam Kadry, Larry F Chu, Bayan Kadry, Danya Gammas, Alex Macario

J Med Internet Res 2011;13(4):e95

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The Use of Physician-Patient Email: A Follow-up Examination of Adoption and Best-Practice Adherence 2005-2008

, and physician workload [22] to be correlated with email usage.

Nir Menachemi, Charles T Prickett, Robert G Brooks

J Med Internet Res 2011;13(1):e23

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