Table 2.

The Spearman’s rank correlation between the graduation years for each specialty and the total hospital rating provided by CMS. The values were sorted from the highest Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient to the lowest. These correlations were computed across all hospitals. Only specialties whose Spearman’s rank correlation had a p value of less than 0.05 are shown. N is the number of practitioners

Specialty	Spearman’s correlation coefficient	Spearman p value	R	R^2	Slope	Mean	Standard deviation	N
Geriatric psychiatry	0.164	0.04507	0.22	0.049	0.164	38.638	8.254	150
Anesthesiology assistant	0.11	0	0.075	0.006	0.075	37.643	9.151	1742
Hematology	0.077	0.00781	0.066	0.004	0.055	39.558	9.811	1191
Allergy/immunology	0.063	0.00087	0.053	0.003	0.041	39.625	9.368	2820
Medical oncology	0.058	0.00001	0.053	0.003	0.049	39.724	9.979	5864
Pulmonary disease	0.051	0	0.051	0.003	0.05	39.434	10.317	21,587
Critical care (intensivists)	0.051	0.00025	0.052	0.003	0.055	39.327	10.089	5196
Dermatology	0.047	0.0001	0.054	0.003	0.04	39.928	9.547	6977
Gynecological oncology	0.047	0.02151	0.05	0.002	0.048	39.413	10.198	2369
Physical medicine and rehabilitation	0.045	0	0.051	0.003	0.054	39.812	10.505	12,211
Radiation oncology	0.041	0.00033	0.037	0.001	0.033	39.719	9.969	7714
Thoracic surgery	0.041	0.00506	0.048	0.002	0.047	39.208	10.14	4618
Colorectal surgery (proctology)	0.039	0.0435	0.04	0.002	0.037	38.913	9.963	2709
Urology	0.038	0	0.044	0.002	0.04	39.719	10.538	22,702
General practice	0.037	0.00303	0.041	0.002	0.034	38.898	10.161	6306
Pathology	0.033	0	0.033	0.001	0.032	40.321	10.993	21,236
Gastroenterology	0.029	0	0.031	0.001	0.029	39.3	10.143	27,131
Psychiatry	0.028	0.00039	0.03	0.001	0.023	38.662	9.593	16,178
Internal medicine	0.026	0	0.033	0.001	0.03	39.441	10.221	191,774
Otolaryngology	0.025	0.00205	0.026	0.001	0.024	39.55	10.532	15,618
Cardiovascular disease (cardiology)	0.024	0	0.027	0.001	0.026	39.527	10.453	64,306
General surgery	0.024	0.00001	0.031	0.001	0.028	39.437	10.671	34,089
Neurology	0.023	0.00017	0.025	0.001	0.021	39.438	10.033	27,499
Hematology/oncology	0.019	0.00934	0.024	0.001	0.022	39.548	10.1	18,420
Family practice	0.018	0	0.02	0	0.019	39.89	10.205	137,552
Anesthesiology	0.015	0.00167	0.018	0	0.018	39.634	11.082	47,000
Obstetrics/gynecology	0.015	0.00175	0.02	0	0.017	39.121	9.809	43,366
Nurse practitioner	− 0.019	0	0.017	0	− 0.022	40.335	10.176	65,449
Certified registered nurse Anesthetist	− 0.033	0	0.032	0.001	− 0.032	40.102	11.064	41,989