Hospitals, doctors, and researchers are ranked by various groups, from the U.S. News and World Report to the Journal Citation Reports at ISI Web of Science. We have listed a number of these and other sites that rank information on doctors and healthcare facilities and delivery.
Produced by the editors of U.S. News & World Report (USNWR). Updated on the USNWR Website in an interactive format.
Format: Website
Provider: U.S. News and World Report
America's Top Doctors: The Nation's Leading Medical Specialists
A national guide to physicians recognized by their peers for their excellence in providing care for specific diseases and problems. The directory is arranged by medical specialty followed by region. Information includes physician's name, admitting hospital, office address and phone number. Also includes details on the expertise, certifications, residencies and faculty appointment.
Format: Book
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Provider: Castle Connolly Guide
Information from Duke University Medical Center News Office includes photos, affiliation, specialty and contact information.
Format: Website
Provider: Duke University
Health Care State Rankings
States are ranked high to low on various measures, such as incidence of disease, births, deaths, etc.
Format: Book
Reference WA900.AA1 H344
Provider: Morgan Quitno Corp.
A free, on-line interactive service for identifying, tracking, analyzing, and comparing statistics on hospital stays, discharges, surgical procedures and diagnostic tests performed while in the hospital. Reports are at the national, regional, and state level. Hcup database returns results from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), the largest inhospital sample of discharge records in the US with over 1,000 hospitals reporting. Surveillance also covers the KID (Kids Inpatient Database) and State Inpatient Databases (SID) and the State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD) and others that have agreed to participate. HCUPnet data years are available from 1997; trend information available since 1993.
Format: Database
Provider: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
For each of 22 fields, the top 10 most-cited researchers are listed, according to papers published and cited during specific bimonthly updates of Essential Science Indicators data. (That is, 10 years plus each successive two-month addition of publication and citation figures, through the most recently available update.) The rankings, based on overall citations, may change slightly from one bimonthly update to the next, as new papers and new citations are added to each researcher's total.
Format: Website
Provider: ISI Journal Citation Reports
This article from MMWR lists the great public health achievements of the 20th Century. Canada's Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, through its Informed Newsletter, 6(1), 1999, gives credit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for highlighting the century's public health achievements, pointing out one major Canadian achievement: universal health care.
Format: Website
Provider: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
This popular list is intended to assist in the evaluation of graduate programs based on certain criteria.
Format: Website
Provider: U.S. News & World Report
