Who are we?
The Rating the Raters team consists of physician methodologists with considerable experience in hospital quality measurement science. They are deeply interested in how to best get comparative hospital quality data back to stakeholders, ensuring that the potential for misclassification of hospital performance is minimized.
Potential Conflicts of Interest
| Author | Disclosure of Any Current or Prior Relationships with a Hospital Rating System |
|---|---|
| Karl Bilimoria |
U.S. News (unpaid; advisory panel in the past) CMS (unpaid; Technical Expert Panel) |
| John Birkmeyer | Leapfrog (unpaid; in the past) |
| Helen Burstin | CMS (NQF supported by CMS; in the past) |
| Justin Dimick |
Leapfrog (unpaid; Volume Standards Committee Chair) U.S. News (unpaid; advisory panel) |
| Karen Joynt Maddox | Contract work for Department of Health and Human Services |
| Peter Pronovost |
Leapfrog (contract, advisory panel) U.S. News (unpaid; advisory panel) |
| CMS: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; NQF: National Quality Forum | |
The authors would like to acknowledge the following people for their assistance with the initiative: Allison Dahlke, MPH (Surgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Centers [SOQIC], Northwestern Medicine); John Oliver Delancey, MD MPH (Surgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Centers [SOQIC], Northwestern Medicine); Carol Cronin (Informed Patient Institute); Mary Dixon-Woods, MSc, DPhil (University of Cambridge); Elizabeth McGlynn, PhD (Kaiser Permanente); Ryan Ellis, MD MPH (Surgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Centers [SOQIC], Northwestern Medicine); and Cindy Barnard, PhD, MBA, MSJS (Northwestern Medicine). We acknowledge Jeanette Chung, PhD (Surgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Centers [SOQIC], Northwestern Medicine) for assistance with statistical analyses. We also appreciate the participation of the hospital rating systems’ leadership and methodologists in various stages of this initiative.