Economic effects of community versus hospital-based faculty pneumonia care
- 1 November 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Vol. 13 (11) , 774-777
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-1497.1998.00231.x
Abstract
To compare the length of stay and charges for patients with pneumonia admitted in 1995 to the teaching and nonteaching services of a Northeastern teaching hospital, we reviewed the charts of 237 patients. Patients cared for by hospital-based generalists working with housestaff (teaching service) were discharged more quickly and with lower or equivalent charges than patients cared for by community-based attending physicians working either with housestaff (private teaching service) or alone (nonteaching service). Academic teaching services staffed by general medicine faculty may provide efficient inpatient pneumonia care.Keywords
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