Hospital Quality Metrics: “America's Best Hospitals” and Outcomes After Ischemic Stroke

Hospital Quality Metrics: “America's Best Hospitals” and Outcomes After Ischemic Stroke, Background: Developing quality metrics to assess hospital-level care and outcomes is increasingly popular in the United States. The U.S., Background: Developing quality metrics to assess hospital-level care and outcomes is increasingly popular in the United States. The U.S. News & World Report ranking of “America's Best Hospitals” is an existing, popular hospital-profiling system, but it is unknown whether top-ranked hospitals in their report have better outcomes according to other hospital quality metrics such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publicly reported 30-day stroke measures. Methods: The analysis was based on the 2015-2016 U.S., admin,