Finding Quality Doctors: How Americans Evaluate Provider Quality in the United States, 2014 (ICPSR 36055)

Version Date: Feb 14, 2024

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Principal Investigator(s):
Trevor Tompson, Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36055.v2

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  • V2 [2024-02-14]
  • V1 [2015-09-08] unpublished
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Summary

This survey examined perceptions of health care provider quality in the United States. To that end, the survey respondents were asked what they thought was the most important factor that makes a high quality doctor or other health care provider and the most important factor that makes a poor quality one (hereafter "provider" denotes "doctor or other health care provider"). Additionally, respondents were asked about the importance of various provider attributes in their choice of a provider; whether there is a relationship between the quality and cost of health care; exposure to and trust in information about the quality of providers from various sources; and cost versus quality when choosing providers. Other topics covered by the survey include self-reported health, utilization of health care, quality of health care received and health insurance coverage. Background variables collected by the survey include age, sex, race, Hispanic ethnicity, marital status, education, employment status and political identification.

Citation

Tompson, Trevor. Finding Quality Doctors: How Americans Evaluate Provider Quality in the United States, 2014. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-02-14. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36055.v2

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Funding

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (71641)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2014-05-27 -- 2014-06-18

Date of Collection

2014-05-27 -- 2014-06-18

Data Collection Notes

  1. This is one of three surveys conducted under grant 71641, a project that investigated how information on quality and value impacts health care decision making. The other two surveys are Employer Perspectives on the Health Insurance Market: A Survey of Businesses in the United States, 2014 (ICPSR 36175) and Privately Insured in America: Opinions on Health Care Costs and Coverage, 2014 (ICPSR 36176).

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Sample

The sample was selected using random digit dialing of landline and cell phone numbers. One respondent was randomly selected in households with more than one adult age 18 or older.

Universe

Household population ages 18 and over in the United States

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Mode of Data Collection

Response Rates

The final response rate was 25 percent, based on the American Association of Public Opinion Research Response Rate 3 method.

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Original Release Date

2015-09-08

Version History

2024-02-14 Online variable search capabilities have been added for this study.

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Tompson, Trevor. Finding Quality Doctors: How Americans Evaluate Provider Quality in the United States, 2014. ICPSR36055-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-02-14. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36055.v2

2015-09-08 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

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This study is maintained and distributed by the Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA). HMCA is the official data archive of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.