Public hospital quality report awareness: evidence from National and Californian Internet searches and social media mentions, 2012

Marco D Huesch, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, Jason N Doctor
2014 BMJ Open  
Objectives: Publicly available hospital quality reports seek to inform consumers of important healthcare quality and affordability attributes, and may inform consumer decision-making. To understand how much consumers search for such information online on one Internet search engine, whether they mention such information in social media and how positively they view this information.
doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004417 pmid:24618223 pmcid:PMC3963102 fatcat:et5jnji4njcrlio47to3vaxuka