TY - JOUR T1 - ASsociations between web-based patient ratings and objective measures of hospital quality AU - Greaves F, Pape UJ, King D, et al Y1 - 2012/03/12 N1 - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.1675 JO - Archives of Internal Medicine SP - 435 EP - 436 VL - 172 IS - 5 N2 - Patients are increasingly using the Internet to rate their experience of health care.1 Although controversial, particularly among health care professionals,2 Web-based hospital or physician rating sites represent a potentially important development in public reporting.3 Patients rarely use conventional publicly reported metrics when choosing their health care provider and often find these difficult to understand.4 SN - 0003-9926 M3 - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.1675 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.1675 ER -