Listen to the patients. They may actually be pretty good judges of doctors and hospitals.
A new study finds that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the marks a patient gives a hospital likely correspond to the actual quality of the hospital.
The study, conducted by a team of Harvard researchers, looked at the star ratings that hospitals are given based on the responses patients give to a 27-question survey about their experience in the facility.
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