Table 5.
Numbers of surgeons with ratings and comments posted on a study website.
| Surgeons with ratings (N = 547) | Surgeons with comments (N = 385) | |||||||
| Website | Bariatric (n = 170) |
Lumbar (n = 182) |
Knee (n = 195) |
Total | Bariatric (n = 101) |
Lumbar (n = 147) |
Knee (n = 137) |
Total |
| Vitals | 101 | 134 | 137 | 372 | 68 | 107 | 98 | 273 |
| HealthGrades | 129 | 161 | 165 | 455 | ||||
| RateMDs | 44 | 91 | 77 | 212 | 40 | 87 | 74 | 201 |
| InsiderPages | 100 | 141 | 151 | 392 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 29 |
| Avvo | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| Yahoo! Local | 11 | 17 | 20 | 48 | 10 | 17 | 19 | 46 |
| Google Maps | 9 | 16 | 6 | 31 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 20 |
| Citysearch | 2 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Yelp | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| Total | 400 | 568 | 566 | 1534 | 132 | 239 | 217 | 588 |