Patients’ evaluations of primary care are influenced by three major dimensions: patients’, family doctors’ and practices’ characteristics. A lot of primary care practices use possibilities of new information technologies, such as chronic patients’ electronic registers, clinical...

Right to health indicators have been subject to debate. Indeed, inadequate monitoring or reporting by states, missing or contradicting data as well as a lack of consensus on what is an appropriate right to health indicator call for new approaches and new ideas in this field.

Physician rating websites (PRWs) could be shown to have an impact on physician choice making. However, little research has been carried out to assess the content and nature of narrative comments.

Following recent reforms in Swedish primary care, providers are accountable to both citizens and county councils, in their role as payers. Productivity and quality measurement is fundamental for ensuring health care providers accountability to payers and that resources are spent as intended. The...