Talk:U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals Rankings

Conflict of interest
I started this article. I work for Consumer Reports, a nonprofit consumer organization which rates hospitals. Our hospital ratings are a marketplace competitor to the US News ratings, so I have a WP:Conflict of interest in compiling this Wikipedia article.

I compiled this article by doing a search in Google Scholar for "U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals Rankings" then pulling out all the papers which seemed to feature these ratings as the subject. I went through the first 50 results (5 pages). I did not look at articles which seemed to only consider the ratings from the perspective of one kind of medical condition, like for example, this highly cited paper - Maybe papers like that tell more of a story but I was hoping for a broad review to keep this article simple.

I summarized some papers which seem interesting to me. I did this in the context of wanting to know more about the US News ratings. Some of the papers I cited are old but still useful to describe the state of the art of the time. I really am not sure how a Wikipedia article on hospital ratings should look. I had trouble finding any review of hospital ratings in general, compiled and published by anyone.

I do not know what kinds of things are said about hospital ratings in academic journals. I do not know if other ratings systems have reviews in the literature like this one does. I work in this field, sort of, but I am a bit ignorant of this topic.

I hope that I have fairly presented the research papers that I found. I grabbed all the ones I saw, which I presume are the ones Google thinks were most popular.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  21:14, 10 December 2015 (UTC)