Considerations of Bias and Reliability in Publicly Reported Physician Ratings

Leah M Marcotte^#¹, Rachel B Issaka^#^{2

3}, Nidhi Agrawal⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA. leahmar@uw.edu.
² Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
³ Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁴ Department of Marketing and International Business, Foster School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

^# Contributed equally.

Editorial

Leah M Marcotte et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Dec.

. 2021 Dec;36(12):3857-3858.

doi: 10.1007/s11606-021-06898-z. Epub 2021 May 19.

Leah M Marcotte^#¹, Rachel B Issaka^#^{2

3}, Nidhi Agrawal⁴

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA. leahmar@uw.edu.
² Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
³ Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁴ Department of Marketing and International Business, Foster School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

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