"U.S. News estimates that nearly 2 million hospital inpatients a year face the prospect of surgery or special care that poses either unusual technical challenges or significantly heightened risk of death or harm because of age, physical condition or existing conditions," the outlet notes on its website. "The rankings are a tool that can help these patients and their families find sources of skilled inpatient care."
The rankings are just a starting point for patients, however, as they do not include individual factors like travel and insurance coverage. U.S. News states patients still have to research and talk with their doctors to determine what is best for their situation.
Twelve of the 15 specialty rankings are derived from data sources such as Medicare. The data-driven analysis combines performance measures in three areas of health care: structure, process and outcomes.
The remaining three specialty rankings (in ophthalmology, psychiatry and rheumatology) are determined by expert opinion. These opinions are "based on responses from three years of surveys of physician specialists who were asked to name the hospitals to which they would be inclined to refer their sickest patients," according to the outlet.
Here are five of the specialties analyzed and their top three hospital rankings:
Cancer care
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — New York, New York
Mayo Clinic-Rochester — Rochester, Minnesota
Diabetes and endocrinology
Mayo Clinic-Rochester — Rochester, Minnesota
Brigham and Women's Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts
New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell (tie) — New York, New York
Cardiology, heart and vascular surgery
Cleveland Clinic — Cleveland, Ohio
NYU Langone Hospitals — New York, New York
Mayo Clinic-Rochester — Rochester, Minnesota
Orthopedics
Hospital for Special Surgery — New York, New York
Mayo Clinic-Rochester — Rochester, Minnesota
NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital — New York, New York
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