title: Public reporting, consumerism, and patient empowerment.
abstract: Public reporting of health care outcomes is largely ignored by consumers, perhaps because it doesn't include concise, comprehensible information on factors such as out-of-pocket costs, the effectiveness of a procedure or treatment, and applicability to their situation.
authors.affiliation: From Harvard Business School, Boston (R.S.H.); and the National Bureau of Economic Research (R.S.H.) and the Advanced Leadership Initiative, Harvard University (M.A.K.) - both in Cambridge, MA.
authors.forename: Robert S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Huckman
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Kelley
mesh_terms: D054626:Consumer Health Information; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000592:standards; D010358:Patient Participation; D010820:Physicians / Q000592:standards; D011634:Public Health; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States