The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region has become the fastest-growing destination for healthcare investment. In recent years, hospitals in the APAC region are thriving on increasing specialization and technological advances in key medical fields. To provide patients with a comprehensive resource for informed decision making, Statista and Newsweek have partnered for the second time to award the leading hospitals in the APAC region, encompassing the countries Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. The ranking awards hospitals in nine medical fields: cardiac surgery, cardiology, endocrinology, neurology, neurosurgery, oncology, orthopedics, pediatrics and pulmonology.
List lengths vary between these nine medical fields: top 100 hospitals for cardiology, oncology and pediatrics, and top 75 hospitals for cardiac surgery, endocrinology, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedics and pulmonology.
THE UNDERLYING DATA ANALYSIS IS BASED ON THREE DATA SOURCES:
International Online Survey _ From February to April 2024 medical professionals (e.g., medical doctors, nurses, physician assistants and therapists) as well as staff working in the management/administration in the countries of the designated APAC region were asked to recommend hospitals in their own field of expertise and in a secondary medical field. Participants were asked to recommend hospitals in their own country as well as internationally. Recommendations for their own employer/hospital were not allowed. The analysis of the primary and secondary recommendations of the nine medical fields was used to determine the reputation score.
Certifications _ Several Joint Commission International (JCI) certifications, relevant to specific medical fields, were included in the scoring analysis. Examples of certifications are “Acute Ischemic Stroke”, “Breast Cancer” and “Low Back Pain”. Hospitals received 5% toward their total score if they had a JCI certification.
Statista PROMS Implementation Survey _ For the first time, a PROMs implementation score has been included in the scoring model of the Best Specialized Hospitals Asia Pacific project. Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are defined as standardized, validated questionnaires completed by patients to measure their perception of their functional well-being and quality of life. In fall/winter of 2023, Newsweek and Statista conducted the voluntary PROMs implementation survey
