title: Who's rating you?
abstract: Web sites judging providers' quality are proliferating, and the number of employers, payers and consumers consulting them is ballooning. Critics say many sites are based on faulty conceptions, but if hospitals don't pay more attention, they risk losing their place in the quality debate and being judged by standards that they find neither valid nor fair.
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authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Scalise
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D006761:Hospitals / Q000145:classification / Q000592:standards*; D020407:Internet; D010820:Physicians / Q000145:classification / Q000592:standards*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000145:classification*; D014481:United States