As part of an ongoing multi-year project investigating hospital-based clinical pharmacy services, the variation in clinical pharmacy services among hospitals with various teaching affiliations was studied. Survey documents, completed by the director of pharmacy, were completed for 1597 hospitals, representing 43 percent of the nation’s acute care general medical surgical hospitals. Hospitals we...

Teaching hospitals are the principal site of many specialized surgical procedures. The recipients of these procedures tend to be younger, male, and nonwhite and tend to reside in either the poorest or the most affluent neighborhoods. Although the numbers of these procedures performed at major teaching hospitals increased dramatically between 1989 and 1995, they accounted for only a modest propo...

given to 46.9% of hospitals reporting the minimum threshold of 1 Outcome measure group, 31.2% of hospitals reporting 2 Outcome measure groups, and 25.5% of hospitals reporting all 3 Outcome measure groups (P < .001) (Table). Star ratings were based on the minimum eligibility threshold of only 3 of 7 measure groups for 49.4% of specialty and 33.3% of critical access hospitals; whereas, 94.3% of ...

OBJECTIVES To determine if the lower mortality often observed in teaching-intensive hospitals is because of lower complication rates or lower death rates after complications (failure to rescue) and whether the benefits at these hospitals accrue equally to white and black patients, since black patients receive a disproportionate share of their care at teaching-intensive hospitals. DESIGN A ret...

Since it is difficult for curators who are not information field specialists to provide teaching materials on the Internet, we built a content management system to support the delivery of teaching materials on the Internet. Specifically, our system, which allows correspondence between various platforms, considers the distribution method of teaching materials in cooperation with an actual planet...

Because teaching hospitals face increasing pressure to justify their higher charges for clinical care, the quality of care in teaching and nonteaching hospitals is an important policy question. The most rigorous peer-reviewed studies published between 1985 and 2001 that assessed quality of care by hospital-teaching status in the United States provide moderately strong evidence of better quality...

Gerard Anderson, et al., in a recent commentary published in Health Affairs (March/April 1999), concluded that "despite dire predictions, America's teaching hospitals appear to be thriving".' This outdated conclusion, based largely on data from 1995, is dangerously optimistic and belies mounting evidence that documents the significant financial stress now facing teaching hospitals around the co...

James J.P. Alix *, Athi Ponnusamy , Debapriya Bhattacharyya , Nigel Hoggard , Richard A. Grünewald e a Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, 385A Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2HQ, UK Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Sheffield, UK Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Hallamshire Hospital...

Aims: To explore the pre-operative diagnosis, surgery performed and histopathological findings in teaching and non teaching hospitals in Chandigarh, India. Methods: A retrospective analysis of preoperative diagnosis made available to the pathologist and the final histopathologic findings was done for age, indication of hysterectomy, type of surgery, hospital setting where surgery was performed ...