Fig. 7From: Exploring relationships between medical college rankings and performance with big dataThe format of the data for performance scores is shown in this figure. The shaded first column shows the names of the fields. Two sample columns of data are shown next. Note that the provider number in the second column, 330,214 corresponding to NYU Hospitals Center, and highlighted in yellow, matches the provider number in the second column of Fig. 6. Similarly the provider number in the third column, 330,078 for Sisters of Charity Hospital, and highlighted in green, is also present in Fig. 6. These fields are used to join the tables. For our correlation analysis, we focus on the last row, containing the “Total performance score” generated by CMS. There are 3089 unique hospitals represented in this fileBack to article page