Counties with essential health care facilities that had lower ratings on Yelp also had higher mortality rates, data showed.
“Patient experience and satisfaction with health care are increasingly recognized as important measures of health care quality, but data on these factors are less widely collected,” Daniel Stokes, MD, a researcher with the Penn Medicine Center for Digital Health and an internal medicine resident at UCLA Health, and colleagues wrote. “Patient experience might also be associated with county-level mortality, but those associations have not yet been well