STAT offers five reasons why hospital rankings by the profitable likes of U.S. News & World Report, et al.,  should be look at with “a grain of salt”. (We’d say the same thing about college rankings!)

They are:

• No matter how objective the metrics, ratings are inherently subjective.
• One bad score, and your rating is shot.
• What’s not in the ratings matters, too.
• Gaming the system.
• The marketing agenda.

To read the STAT article, please hit this link.