America’s Best Children’s Hospitals 2024
Based on a national online survey of thousands of medical professionals, hospital quality metrics, results from patient experience surveys, and a PROMs implementation survey, the leading children’s hospitals in the United States in 8 pediatric subspecialties were awarded for the second time in cooperation with Newsweek. The 8 pediatric subspecialties are: Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology & Gastrointestinal Surgery, Neonatology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Oncology & Hematology, Orthopedics, and Pulmonology & Thoracic Surgery.
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Who are
America’s Best Children’s Hospitals 2024
✓ Hospital participated in the PROMs implementation survey
Hospital surpassed the minimum grading threshold of PROMs implementation
Hospital has an advanced level of PROMs implementation
Surveys
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Statista PROMs implementation survey
To account for the increasing importance of value-based care in healthcare systems worldwide, Statista is surveying hospitals regarding their Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) implementation status. PROMs are defined as standardized, validated questionnaires completed by patients to measure their perception of their functional well-being and quality of life related to an episode or experience of care.
Newsweek and Statista recognize the importance of this topic for global advancements in health care delivery and, together with the guidance of Statista’s global board of medical experts, have developed a survey about the implementation and use of PROMs across different specialties and departments in hospitals. The implementation of PROMs adds a patient-outcome focused dimension and improves the comprehensiveness of the rankings.
Only hospitals which achieved a minimum of 50% (of the maximum 100% score) were eligible to be graded and received a maximum of up to 3.5% towards the total score.
The upcoming survey period for the PROMs implementation survey will begin in autumn 2024 and will be open for participation here.
Pre-Registration is available here (Please make sure to whitelist the email address: hospitals@ranking.statista-research.com):
Statista Smart Hospitals Maturity Survey
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Project Details
About the project
1,500+
Hospitals evaluated
Thousands
of medical professionals surveyed
380
Hospitals awarded
methodology
How we work
Scoring
The scoring model is based on 4 pillars: Hospital recommendations from medical experts, hospital quality metrics, patient experience data and the voluntary PROMs implementation survey.
Concept
Participants were asked to recommend hospitals based on their expertise in a subspecialty they were most familiar with and were able to choose an optional second subspecialty in which they are also knowledgeable (e.g. due to frequent cooperation with other medical fields).
(1) From April to May 2024, Statista invited hospital managers and medical professionals with knowledge about children’s hospitals to an online survey. The survey was available to medical professionals to participate on Newsweek.com. Additionally, participants were invited via e-mail. Participants were asked to recommend hospitals in a subspecialty they were most familiar with and to recommend hospitals in a second subspecialty. Recommendations for own employer were not allowed.
(2) Hospital quality metrics data relevant to pediatric care from Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the American Hospital Association annual hospital survey of 2022, and The Joint Commission (TJC) were collected.
(3) Publicly available data from patient surveys was used to analyze the overall patient experience in the hospital.
(4) Additionally, data collected from hospitals from the PROMs Implementation survey were factored into the scorings.
Data collection
Medical experts were invited by Statista and Newsweek to participate in an online survey to recommend hospitals on a national level. Recommendations for own employer were not allowed.
Evaluation
For the evaluation, Statista R applies a scoring model. Scores were calculated for each hospital in each of the four categories and weighted accordingly: Peers recommendations (51.5%, consisting of 70% recommendations from peers for primary subspecialty and 30% recommendations from peers for secondary subspecialty), hospital quality metrics (30%, consisting on 30% CMS data, 5% accreditations/certifications, and 65% the AHA data), patient experience (15%) and PROMs (3.5%).
A detailed report on our methodology is available here.
Partnership
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Newsweek is an American news magazine and website that provides high-quality information to readers around the globe, reaching over 75 million people each month. First launched in 1933, Newsweek nowadays reports about topics in the fields of international issues, technology, business, culture and politics. The information channels reach from weekly published print editions in various countries to an online and mobile presence worldwide.
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