ARE THE PHYSICIAN REPORT CARDS FAIR OR BALANCED

Are the Physician Report cards fair or balanced?



Are the Physician Report cards fair or balanced?

Introduction

The report card correspond a student's performance. It is a progress report that is offered periodically. In this paper, I will be talk about a physician's report card. A physician's report card provides you to evaluate quality, determine performance, community reporting, and shows acknowledgment. I will also talk about why I feel their report card is fair and balanced. Additionally I will present my judgment on why a physician's report offers information consumers require taking medical decisions.

The report card permits everyone to analyze the experience plus the recommendation of the physician, if it shows's any misconduct of the physician. I feel the report card is an instrument to determine the quality in healthcare. Quality healthcare can be defined as the degree to which patients get the care that they require in a way that most effectively defend or bring back their health.

Discussion

Information technology has made it possible to mount and adjust performance data for that service organizations that can be evaluate in a variety of factors of importance to consumers. After seeing the www.healthgrades.com site, I would say that the medical report cards are fair and balance at some end, but also sometimes unfair and unbalanced. I tried the website to observe what information is accessible by randomly searching for a particular hospital and then randomly select a physician (Schoeff, 2007). The rating given by the patients seemed to be very few. The individual who believes he was only six ratings from patients and yes they were all good. This hospital is a hospital known for what is expected more. To create a medical decision based on the 6 ratings good for it would be unwise. There ...