title: Providers issue brief: provider profiles.
abstract: In the past, when a consumer wanted to choose a doctor, there was little, if any, opportunity to research the doctor's experience, medical training, or malpractice history, except through word of mouth. Most recently, state lawmakers are trying to help educate consumers in their search for a physician, by requiring health care licensees to provide such information and making the physician or other health care provider profiles available on the Internet or through a 1-800 number.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rothouse
mesh_terms: D006282:Health Personnel; D006291:Health Policy; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D010820:Physicians; D013219:State Government; D014481:United States