Patient Use of Cost and Quality Data When Choosing a Joint Replacement Provider in the Context of Reference Pricing

• Autori principali: Ryan Kandrack (Autore), Ateev Mehrotra (Autore), Andrea DeVries (Autore), Sze-jung Wu (Autore), Nelson F. SooHoo (Autore), Grant R. Martsolf (Autore)
• Natura: Libro
• Pubblicazione: SAGE Publishing, 2015-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Soggetti: article
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Health plans are encouraging consumerism among joint replacement patients by reporting information on hospital costs and quality. Little is known about how the proliferation of such initiatives impacts patients' selection of a surgeon and hospital. We performed a qualitative analysis of semistr...