Fact Based List:

Casey Ross: 5 reasons to take hospital ratings with a big grain of salt

  1. No matter how objective the metrics, ratings are inherently subjective
  2. One bad score, and your rating is shot
  3. What’s not in the ratings matters, too
  4. Gaming the system - Hospitals routinely launch initiatives to improve scores in particular ratings categories
  5. The marketing agenda

Source: STAT
Source URL: https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/02/hospital-ratings-skeptic...