Caution advised when considering patient and colleague feedback on doctors

ScienceDaily (Oct. 27, 2011) — Official assessments of a doctor's professionalism should be considered carefully before being accepted due to the tendency for some doctors to receive lower scores than others, and the tendency of some groups of patient or colleague assessors to provide lower scores, claims new research published online in the British Medical Journal.Researchers from the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry in Exeter investigated whether there were any potential patient, colleague...

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