Counterpoint: Will Public Reporting of Health-care Quality Measures Inform and Educate Patients? No.

摘要

Health-care report cards, which publicly report provider performance on quality measures, are becoming increasingly common. These report cards seek to improve health-care quality through two main mechanisms. First, they enable consumers to choose higher-quality providers, and second, as a result, they force providers to compete to improve their ranking on report cards. Although the consumer choice pathway generally is believed to be the more important of the two because it is consumer choice that motivates change in provider quality, few patients actually use quality information to choose their providers.