A total of 2,000 clinics in 25 countries were assessed. In second place for Austria is the Innsbruck University Clinic (49). In fact, most of the rich industrial countries (USA, Germany, Japan, South Korea, France, Italy, Switzerland, Israel etc.) are the home countries of the listed clinics.
“These states were selected mainly because of their prosperity and life expectancy, population size, number of hospitals and accessible data,” wrote the US news magazine, which developed the ranking together with data provider Statista.
Three US clinics at the top
At the top is the Mayo Clinic in Rochester (US state Minnesota), followed by the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio (USA). The Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston), which is also world-famous in medicine, received third place.
The Vienna General Hospital came in 27th. With around 77,500 inpatient admissions and 460,000 outpatient cases (outpatient frequency: 1.2 million visits), the largest hospital in Austria with the MedUni Vienna clinics is also a real “size” internationally. Compared to US hospitals, one must also take into account that the Mayo Clinic and many similar facilities, for example, are private hospitals.
Charite in Berlin in sixth place
In sixth place is the first clinic from a German-speaking country, the Charite in Berlin (seventh place: Karolinska University Hospital Stockholm). The University Hospital Zurich takes twelfth place.
The LKH Innsbruck with the university clinics finally takes 49th place on the list. LKH Graz, Salzburg and Linz, also university hospitals, are listed by “Newsweek” in the group of the best hospitals between ranks 100 and 200.
Three data sources
Three data sources were mainly used: recommendations from an international team of experts, patient surveys and existing quality indicators for services (Healthcare Key Performance Indicators, KPIs). A real ranking list was drawn up for the first hundred hospitals. For 101 to 200, inclusion in this group is considered the result. 350 of the approximately 2,000 clinics examined are located in the USA.
“The evaluations are only comparable within the hospitals from the same country, because different sources for the experience of the patients and the performance indicators were examined depending on the country,” says the comments on the methods.
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