Are the US News’ hospital rankings a good thing?

Joe Paduda raises some questions:

. . . a hospital pretty much has to be a teaching facility to be included. While that may be a bit of an exaggeration, the list is dominated by teaching facilities, and the criteria certainly are biased in this direction. There are lots of really good hospitals that are not teaching facilities, and therefore will suffer in comparison if consumers use this survey without considering the criteria. As they will.

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