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. 2022 Aug 1;182(8):881-883.
doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.2273.

Recency of Online Physician Ratings

Weiguang Wang  1 , Junjie Luo  2 , Michelle Dugas  2   3 , Guodong Gordon Gao  2 , Ritu Agarwal  2 , Rachel M Werner  4   5   6
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Recency of Online Physician Ratings

Weiguang Wang et al. JAMA Intern Med. .

Abstract

This cross-sectional study examines the association between older and more recent online physician ratings and the implications for optimizing the trade-off between reliability and incentives.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

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Figure.. Profile Ratings Using the Mean of All Ratings vs Mean Ratings From the Recent 3 Years
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