1. Long-Term Doctor-Patient Relationships: Patient Perspective From Online Reviews
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Andrea López, Alissa Detz, and Urmimala Sarkar
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Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,020205 medical informatics ,Patients ,Doctor patient ,media_common.quotation_subject ,social media ,Health Informatics ,02 engineering and technology ,Primary care ,lcsh:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics ,Health Services Accessibility ,03 medical and health sciences ,primary care ,0302 clinical medicine ,Nursing ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Medicine ,Personality ,Humans ,Social media ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Big Five personality traits ,Competence (human resources) ,media_common ,Original Paper ,Internet ,Physician-Patient Relations ,business.industry ,lcsh:Public aspects of medicine ,lcsh:RA1-1270 ,Continuity of Patient Care ,3. Good health ,Office staff ,Family medicine ,qualitative ,lcsh:R858-859.7 ,The Internet ,Clinical Competence ,business - Abstract
BackgroundContinuity of patient care is one of the cornerstones of primary care. ObjectiveTo examine publicly available, Internet-based reviews of adult primary care physicians, specifically written by patients who report long-term relationships with their physicians. MethodsThis substudy was nested within a larger qualitative content analysis of online physician ratings. We focused on reviews reflecting an established patient-physician relationship, that is, those seeing their physicians for at least 1 year. ResultsOf the 712 Internet reviews of primary care physicians, 93 reviews (13.1%) were from patients that self-identified as having a long-term relationship with their physician, 11 reviews (1.5%) commented on a first-time visit to a physician, and the remainder of reviews (85.4%) did not specify the amount of time with their physician. Analysis revealed six overarching domains: (1) personality traits or descriptors of the physician, (2) technical competence, (3) communication, (4) access to physician, (5) office staff/environment, and (6) coordination of care. ConclusionsOur analysis shows that patients who have been with their physician for at least 1 year write positive reviews on public websites and focus on physician attributes.
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- 2013