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47. Should We Trust Hospital Rankings?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Health System Quality Measures

Us. News orl report is moving towards including various measures of quality, at least reporting it might find its way into the actual rankings. Having a set of quality measures that ignores equity and that actually sets up incentives to stay away from hiras patients, i think, as not how we want to be driving our health systems forward. Some of the equity measures that have been shared by us news, for example, look at disparities in preventable hospitalizations in a community.

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