As communities build on early efforts to share comparative data on health care costs and resource use, it is important to understand the perspective of all stakeholders–including doctors—to ensure everyone perceives the information as credible, valid, and helpful. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s 16 Aligning Forces for Quality alliances and other organizations across the country are working to improve the quality of care delivered in their communities, including through efforts to make information about cost and resource use available.
These two papers examine physician and consumer attitudes about publicly-reported information that compares the quality and/or cost of care delivered by different local medical providers, and considers how this information can be used to improve care quality and reduce health care costs.
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