rating top hospitals - X post

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/top-hospitals-arent-always-top s-new-report-finds-6C10802114#health/6-m-et-wed-emb-top-hosp itals-arent-always-tops-6C10802114?ocid=msnhp&pos=7

Article says:

“You can ask your surgeon for rates of death. You can ask how many of those procedures they have done before,” she said. Surgeons who won’t give that information might not be the right surgeon to do the work.

(I would also ask about complication rates and how complications are handled)

Consumer Reports will add the findings to its subscription-only website. The non-profit is one of several organizations that now rate hospitals and doctors. U.S. News and World Report has such a website, as does The Commonwealth Fund, the LeapFrog Group, the Informed Patient Institute and the federal government.