Patients rate their satisfaction on Likert type scales and the ratings are intended to inform the therapeutic dialogue between clinician and patient.
Patients rate doctors, students rate professors, consumers rate restaurants.
I'm fascinated to see how the Zagat Guide's experiments in having patients rate their doctors for service the same way they have consumers rate restaurants works out.
Dr. George Savage, president and chief executive of CareThere, said the site was designed to let relatives of patients rate the care being given.
The patients rate their doctors in four broad categories, indicate whether they would recommend the doctor to someone else and can add comments if they wish.
Another interesting site is iwantgreatcare.org, which is taking the TripAdvisor model and letting patients rate medical care.
Analysis by Denis Campbell The coalition's health plans pledge to implement most of the ideas the Tories developed in opposition, such as a new independent NHS board, real-terms year-on-year increases in spending, halting the closure of hospital A&E and maternity units, and letting patients rate their quality of hospital care.
Health minister Ann Keen said: "Since the survey was conducted last summer, we have made further progress in our work to eliminate mixed-sex accommodation, where it is clinically justified... NHS staff should be proud that 93% of patients rate their overall care as good or excellent.
Any dentist who does not adequately reduce his or her patients' rate of dental failure will face escalating sanctions, even including replacement of clinic staff or restructuring, which can mean anything from state takeover to imposing private management on public dental clinics.
The mortality rate of haematological malignancy patients rate was high.
For example, one oncologist said: "It is positive that the patients rate themselves sometimes we underestimate.
