Table S2. Cardiothoracic (CT) surgical centers classified as “top CT centers’, defined as among the top 10 US institutions in at least one of the following categories in the US News & World Report 2015-2016: “Honor Roll”, “Adult Cardiology and Heart Surgery”, “Adult Pulmonology” or “Adult Cancer”.
| No. | Institution | State |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stanford University | CA |
| 2 | University of California, San Diego | CA |
| 3 | University of California, Los Angeles | CA |
| 4 | University of California, San Francisco | CA |
| 5 | University of Colorado | CO |
| 6 | Northwestern University | IL |
| 7 | Brigham and Women’s Hospital | MA |
| 8 | Massachusetts General Hospital | MA |
| 9 | Johns Hopkins University | MD |
| 10 | Mayo Clinic | MN |
| 11 | Washington University in St. Louis | MO |
| 12 | Duke University | NC |
| 13 | Columbia University Medical Center | NY |
| 14 | Weill Cornell Medical College | NY |
| 15 | Cleveland Clinic | OH |
| 16 | University of Pennsylvania | PA |
| 17 | MD Anderson Cancer Center | TX |
| 18 | University of Washington | WA |
Centers are arranged by alphabetical order by state.