2017
DOI: 10.1177/1062860617691843
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Reputation and the Best Hospital Rankings: What Does It Really Mean?

Abstract: U.S. News & World Report's annual Best Hospital Rankings are determined by an index of quality based on objective and subjective measures. This study investigates relationships between U.S. News score and its individual subjective and objective components that ultimately determine the relative ranking of the top 50 hospitals in the 2015 Best Hospital Rankings for the study's selected specialties-cancer, cardiology, gastroenterology, neurology, and orthopedics. A 2-step linear regression model was employed; fir… Show more

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“…Specifically, hospital reputation accounts for 27.5% of the process domain's weight, which relies entirely on physician survey data regarding the reputation of the hospital. As such, the USNWR ranking position can be marked affected by this metric without any consideration of clinical outcomes . Indeed, Cua et al noted that the ranking of the top 50 hospitals in the 2015 Best Hospital rankings for cancer, cardiology, gastroenterology, neurology, and orthopedics was more influenced by reputation on the total U.S. News score than objective metrics.…”
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“…Specifically, hospital reputation accounts for 27.5% of the process domain's weight, which relies entirely on physician survey data regarding the reputation of the hospital. As such, the USNWR ranking position can be marked affected by this metric without any consideration of clinical outcomes . Indeed, Cua et al noted that the ranking of the top 50 hospitals in the 2015 Best Hospital rankings for cancer, cardiology, gastroenterology, neurology, and orthopedics was more influenced by reputation on the total U.S. News score than objective metrics.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As such, the USNWR ranking position can be marked affected by this metric without any consideration of clinical outcomes . Indeed, Cua et al noted that the ranking of the top 50 hospitals in the 2015 Best Hospital rankings for cancer, cardiology, gastroenterology, neurology, and orthopedics was more influenced by reputation on the total U.S. News score than objective metrics. Collectively, these data have important potential implications as the relative position within the top 50 – while frequently used in advertising campaigns – had little impact on actual patient outcomes.…”
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“…However, there has been some criticism of the utility of Doximity, as given rankings are based on reputation as defined by survey-eligible physicians or based on research productivity [6,7]. Furthermore, the quality of residency programs can be expressed in many outcome measurements and a variety of factors may be required to fully capture program quality.…”
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confidence: 99%