A Review of Consumer Assessments of Physician Groups
Abstract
The focus of the literature review is consumer assessment of providers at the medical group level. The Internet provides access to a range of searchable databases. Without a search strategy, however, untold hours may be spent scouring different, sometimes overlapping bibliographies. For this reason, we devised a systematic search strategy to ensure a quality and comprehensive search. Time limits and other constraints on the search helped to combat diminishing returns. Thorough documentation is the best guarantee that references are not lost or unnecessarily duplicated. To maintain quality control in our literature review, we documented not only the reference of interest, but also any information about the search path that led to the reference. This helped to retrospectively analyze the comprehensiveness of our search and allows for the reproducibility of the search results. For each iteration of the literature search, we recorded the following information: (a) database searched, (b) key words and search option combinations, (c) specific organization or WWW site, (d) years used for the search, (e) number of returned references per search, and (f) number of selected references per search.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA387406
Entities
People
- Julie A. Brown
- Matt Solomon
- Ron D Hays
- Rosa E. Garcia
- Shana Traina
Organizations
- RAND Corporation