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THE WORLD’S BEST HOSPITALS 2021 This year’s ranking of the premier destinations for acute medical care around the globe and in the U.S., including the best American hospitals for infection prevention. GETTY CREDIT CREDIT 34 NEWSWEEK.COM MARCh 12, 2021 Illustrations by OKSANA GRIVINA NEWSWEEK.COM 35 WORLD’S BEST HOSPITALS 2021 METHODOLOGY THE EXPERTS Provided guidance and methodological input for the rankings THE WORLD’S BEST HOSPITALS same country, because dif- DAVID W. BATES, M.D. GREGORY KATZ ranking lists the best ferent sources for patient Brigham and Women’s University of Paris School hospitals in 25 countries: experience and medical Hospital, Boston of Medicine, Paris USA, Germany, Japan, South KPIs were examined in Korea, France, Italy, United each country. Since it was Chief of the division of general internal A professor at the University of Paris medicine and primary care at Brigham School of Medicine, Gregory Katz holds Kingdom, Spain, Brazil, Can- not possible to harmonize and Women’s Hospital, Bates is also a the Chair of Innovation & Value in Health. ada, India, Australia, Mexico, this data, cross-country professor at Harvard Medical School He is also president of PromTime, The Netherlands, Poland, comparisons of the scores and the Harvard School of Public Health a health data science company spe- Austria, Thailand, Swit- are not possible (example: and serves as medical director of clinical cialized in Value-Based Health Care, zerland, Sweden, Belgium, A score of 90 in country A and quality analysis for Partners Health- commissioned by the French Ministry Care in Boston. Internationally recog- of Health to incentivize practitioners on Finland, Norway, Denmark, doesn’t necessarily mean nized for his research on using medical high-value care.
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