Dr. John Peloza Voted Best Doctors In America 2001-2006

Best Doctors in America is the Gold Standard of Physician Quality

Finding the Best:
A Commitment to Quality and Integrity

Best Doctors is committed to identifying the best in medical knowledge and making that knowledge available. We go to extraordinary lengths to ensure the credibility and comprehensiveness of our database of best doctors, to enhance the quality of the information we collect from our doctors, and to keep that information up to date for our customers and clients.

In the United States and Canada, Best Doctors commissions an exhaustive, annual peer review survey of the medical profession that contacts more than 35,000 doctors who were identified in previous surveys as the "best" in their specialties and asks them: "If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, to whom would you refer them?"

A survey is only as good as its participants, and the unique strength of Best Doctors' survey is that only the best participate.


The Gold Standard of Doctor Quality

Although facilitated by extensive proprietary polling and balloting software, and undertaken on an epic scale, Best Doctors' surveys are designed to mimic the informal, peer-peer referral process that doctors themselves use to determine appropriate specialists for individual cases, a process that is internationally recognized and accepted as the gold standard for identifying top-quality doctors.

The difference is that Best Doctors' surveys bring together the insights and experience of tens of thousands of leading specialists and cover more than 400 subspecialties of medicine.

Annually, as many as a million peer evaluations go into detailed profiles on the doctors in our database, with sometimes as many as 200 individual evaluations on a single doctor.


Best Doctors® Database:
An Unparalleled Resource

  • Best Doctors' survey process corrects for methodological biases-for example, by identifying suspect voting patterns and weighing votes according to the voter's own rating.
  • Best Doctors employs a combination of high-technology surveying methods and person-to-person telephone interviews to encourage more complete and candid responses.
  • The broadness and depth of the voting pool help eliminate the biases that mar smaller-scale surveys and the distortion that results from minimal and/or indiscriminate participation from the medical community.
  • Best Doctors never takes compensation of any kind from doctors or hospitals in return for listing doctors in its database, nor does Best Doctors pay doctors to participate in its survey process.
  • In-depth surveying allows Best Doctors to develop detailed profiles of each of the doctors in its database (e.g. office hours, waiting time for appointments, bedside manner, in-office language skills, special areas of research and/or experience).
  • All doctors in our database are checked for licensing and certification requirements and for any disqualifying disciplinary actions.

The result is a database of unmatched depth, quality, integrity, reliability, and comprehensive database.


About Best Doctors®

Best Doctors, Inc. of Boston, MA and Aiken, SC is the global leader in providing information about, and access to, the best medical care in the U.S. and around the world. For over a decade, the company has been conducting the largest independent surveys of the medical profession to identify the doctors that other doctors consider to be the best in their specialties. The Best Doctors surveys also identify outstanding local primary care physicians.

The Best Doctors polling methodology is designed to mimic the informal peer-peer referral process that doctors themselves use to identify appropriate specialists for their patients. The company has expanded this local process to include regional and national groups of physicians. Using extensive proprietary polling and balloting software, the company's peer- reviewed surveys bring together the insights and experience of tens of thousands of leading specialists all over the country, eliminating the biases that can distort smaller-scale surveys.

The 2003-2004 Best Doctors in America" database includes more than 30,000 doctors in 43 specialties and over 400 subspecialties, representing all 50 states and the District of Columbia. These are the doctors that other doctors recognize and turn to for themselves and their families. And since doctors are not required nor allowed to pay a fee to be listed, Best Doctors has gained the respect of the medical profession and patients alike as an unbiased source of top quality medical information.

Best Doctors uses its database to support a family of high-touch, as well as web-based services that link individuals with serious illness to these expert medical specialists for second opinions or treatment. The company has developed detailed profiles of the doctors in its database, (special areas of research, diagnoses treated most often, etc), enhancing its ability to guide individuals to the doctors most experienced to advise on and/or treat the illness in question. In addition, all doctors are checked for licensing and certification requirements and for any disqualifying disciplinary actions. Individuals requiring access to these services may contact the company 1-800-223-5003, or through its award-winning web site www.bestdoctors.com

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