Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Hospital Ratings Are In The Eye Of the Beholder

Hospital Ratings Are In The Eye Of The Beholder by Jordan Rau.  Kaiser Health News.  March 18, 2013.

The world of hospital ratings is a world differing standards and differing results.  So much so that, according to the article, the hospital raters are now rated by the Informed Patient Institute.  While the ratings offer unprecedented transparency, the wildly diverging methodologies also can be confusing.  These methodologies offer many hospitals to be rated well in some aspect of patient care, hence the marketing popularity of the ratings.

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