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As hospitals, insurance companies and policy makers seek to improve healthcare quality and reduce rising medical costs, one important metric used to assess clinicians hinges on how patients feel about their healthcare experience. Many healthcare providers and policy makers fear that increased pressure to please patients and ensure high satisfaction ratings as a result could lead to overuse of low-value care that doesn t provide any clinical benefit while unnecessarily ratcheting up medical bills.
But new research from the University of Chicago and Harvard Medical School may alleviate some of those concerns. The study, published May 28 in
JAMA Internal Medicine, found no relationship between favorable patient ratings and exposure to more low-value care.
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R. Tamara Konetzka, Professor of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago
David Gifford, Chief Medical Officer, the American Health Care Association
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