The Influence of Paid Memberships on Physician Rating Websites With the Example of the German Portal Jameda: Descriptive Cross-sectional Study.

Friedrich Aaron David Armbruster Doerthe Brueggmann David Alexander Groneberg Michael H K Bendels

Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2023)

Paid physician profiles could be interpreted to be optimized for decision-making criteria of potential patients. With our data, it is not possible to draw any conclusions of mechanisms that alter physicians' ratings. Further research is needed to investigate the causes for the observed effects.

Keyphrases

primary care
decision making
emergency department
cross sectional
electronic health record
big data
risk assessment