Don't Yelp Your Doctor. Study Finds Ratings Are All Wrong.
- Online ratings don’t indicate medical skill, analysis finds
- Review sites say friendly staff, kind doctors, matter too
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If you’re looking for the best doctor, online ratings are unlikely to be much help.
That’s the determination of researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, who compared reviews of 78 of the medical center’s specialists on five popular ratings sites with a set of internal quality measures and found there was essentially no correlation.