The World's Best Hospitals 2023 also includes new hospital quality metrics, most notably data from the Israeli National Program for Quality Indicators (INPQ) for Israel and the Danish Clinical Quality Program for Denmark. PROMs are defined as standardized, validated questionnaires completed by patients to measure their perception of their functional well-being and quality of life. This year we have added an important new pillar to our scoring model: for the first time, hospitals were surveyed regarding their PROMs implementation status. We have also listed the best hospitals by country each country list also includes a listing of top specialty hospitals. For the first time, we ranked all top 250 global hospitals. This year, we have ranked over 2,300 hospitals in 28 countries, including one that is new to our list, Taiwan. To recognize them, Newsweek and global data firm Statista are proud to introduce our fifth annual listing of the World's Best Hospitals 2023. The best belong to a very exclusive club. Of all the hospitals in the world, relatively few can do all those things year in and year out. The world's best hospitals consistently attract the best people and provide the best outcomes for patients as well as the most important new therapies and research. The very best institutions also share another quality: consistency. and around the world, leading hospitals are dealing with rising costs, aging populations and a medical workforce exhausted from battling a global pandemic.Īmong the hallmarks of great hospitals, however, are not just first-class care, first-class research and first-class innovation.

COVID-19 put unprecedented stress on health systems, as have inflation and global financial uncertainty. These are challenging times for hospitals.

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