Background: US News & World Report's annual rankings of the top 50 American hospitals in
12 specialties are based on a combination of subjective and objective measures of quality …

Rankings and report cards have become a popular way of providing information in a variety
of domains. I estimate the response to rankings in the hospital market and find that hospitals …

In the 1980s, the American Academy of Nursing reported on hospitals that were able to
recruit and retain highly qualified nurses in a competitive market. Subsequent research …

For more than 10 years, reports comparing quality of care in hospitals have been
disseminated to the public. The most commonly used measure in these reports is hospital …

Background “America's Best Hospitals,” an influential list published annually by US News &
World Report, assesses the quality of hospitals. It is not known whether patients admitted to …

Despite suggestive evidence, there has been no adequately powered systematic study of
the ways in which marital status influences health care consumption. Using a novel data set …

The public is inundated with media cov-erage of changes in health care that could adversely
affect their access to and the quality of health care services. Public opinion polls confirm that …

This article analyses patient mobility across Italian regions. A modified gravity model of
patient migration is specified and estimated using panel observations covering mobility and …

Purpose–Given the enormous size of the health care industry, the problem of develo**
high‐quality, cost‐effective health care delivery systems is growing in importance. There is …

National effort is currently directed toward develo** and disseminating comparative
information involving both outcomes and processes of care for health care providers …