Public reporting, consumerism, and patient empowerment.

Huckman, Robert S; Kelley, Mark A · N Engl J Med · 2013

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Abstract

Public reporting of health care outcomes is largely ignored by consumers, perhaps because it doesn't include concise, comprehensible information on factors such as out-of-pocket costs, the effectiveness of a procedure or treatment, and applicability to their situation.

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