What happens when patients find out how good their doctors are? (2004)

Re:What happens when patients find out how good their doctor... by Retric on Monday December 04, 2017 @12:55PM (#15845887)

> Patients aren't randomly assigned to providers.

Sure, we don't have that information today. But, if we want to collect relevant information we could easily have a subset of doctors with random patient assignment. IMO, that's simply an implementation detail required if we want good information.

PS: US healthcare spending is over 3 trillion per year, rationally even minor improvements are worth large investments.

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Re:What happens when patients find out how good their doctor... by nradov on Monday December 04, 2017 @01:22PM (#15846148)

None of that is actually easy. Spend a few years working in a clinical environment and then tell us how easily it could be done.

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Re:What happens when patients find out how good their doctor... by Retric on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @12:51PM (#15853744)

I do work in healthcare for HHS this is very much the kind of thing we do. Change is hard, data collection is significantly easier.

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