Importance The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Overall Star Rating is
widely used by patients and consumers, and there is continued stakeholder curiosity …

Importance Despite widespread use to guide patients to hospitals providing the best care, it
remains unknown whether Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hospital star …

Importance The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare star
ratings are widely used summaries of hospital quality that can influence patient choice and …

Objectives In the USA and UK, pandemic-era outcome data have been excluded from
hospital rankings and pay-for-performance programmes. We assessed the relationship …

Over the past two decades, patient‐centred care has gained global prominence,
emphasising collaboration among patients, families, caregivers, and healthcare …

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has been reporting hospital star ratings
since 2016. Some stakeholders have criticized the star ratings methodology for not adjusting …

Objective To illustrate the association between the sociodemographic characteristics of
hospital markets and the geographic patterns of Medicare hospital value‐based purchasing …

Background: According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services star ratings, New
York State (NYS) hospitals are relatively poor performers, with 33% achieving 1 star …

Over the past two decades, patient-centered care has gained global prominence,
emphasizing collaboration among patients, families, caregivers, and healthcare …

High profile composite indicators seeking to summarise aspects of the quality of healthcare
organisations often have important impacts: they may be reputationally consequential for …