Douglas Slain

Oct 9, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Jean-Marie Boeynaems |Douglas Slain |Stephen H. Gillespie

1 IntroductionOver the past few decades, public reporting of health providers’ performance (PRHPP) has been increasingly used for the purpose of improving the quality of patient care (Marshall et al., 2000). It started in the United States in the 1980s (Hannan et al., 1994) and has since been adopted by many other developed countries (Hibbard et al., 2003; Marshall et al., 2003).