Medical universities and academic health centers

Advertising by academic medical centers.

BACKGROUND Many academic medical centers have increased their use of advertising to attract patients. While the content of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertisements (ads) has been studied, to our knowledge, advertising by academic medical centers has not. We aimed to characterize advertising by the nation's top academic medical centers. METHODS We contacted all 17 medical centers named...

Academic health centers and health care reform.

There is increasing support for the proposition that academic health centers have a duty to accept broad responsibility for the health of their communities. The Health of the Public program has proposed that centers become directly involved in the social-political process as advocates for reform of the health care system. Such engagement raises important issues about the roles and responsibilit...

Academic medical centers and conflicts of interest.

Educational Development Centers in universities of medical sciences and health services: past, present

After foundation of the Educational Development Center (EDC) in Ministry of Health and Medical Education in 1989, These centers were gradually established in universities of medical sciences in order to promote the quality of education. The necessity of establishment of EDCs was tangibly revealed after integration of previous ministry of health and medical science faculties and establishment o...

Medical Progress and Health Care Financing: Research in Academic Medical Centers Following the 1997 Medicare Cuts

We ask whether reforms designed to contain the growth of health care expenditures have the unintended consequence of changing the level and altering the composition of research performed inside academic medical centers. We study the effect of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which changed the formula used to reimburse Medicare inpatient claims. We compare teaching hospitals’ relative exposure t...