Influence of Intensified Supervision by Health Care Inspectorates on Online Patient Ratings of Hospitals: A Multilevel Study of More Than 43,000 Online Ratings.
Rudolf Bertijn KoolSophia Martine KleefstraIne BorghansFemke AtsmaTom H van de BeltPublished in: Journal of medical Internet research (2016)
Hospitals that are confronted with intensified supervision by the health care inspectorate have lower ratings on patient rating sites. The scores are independent of the period: before, during, or just after the intervention by the health care inspectorate. Health care inspectorates might learn from these results because they indicate that the inspectorate identifies the same hospitals as "at risk" as the patients rate as underperformers.