Patient outcomes with teaching versus nonteaching healthcare: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Extensive debate exists in the healthcare community over whether outcomes of medical care at teaching hospitals and other healthcare units are better or worse than those at the respective nonteaching ones. Thus, our goal was to systematically evaluate the evidence pertaining to this question.

Methods and findings

We reviewed all studies that compared teaching versus nonteaching healthcare structures for mortality or any other patient outcome, regardless of health condition. Studies were retrieved from PubMed, contact with experts, and literature cross-referencing. Data were extracted on setting, patients, data sources, author affiliations, definition of compared groups, types of diagnoses considered, adjusting covariates, and estimates of effect for mortality and

SUBMITTER: Papanikolaou PN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1564172 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature