Association Between Teaching Status and Mortality in US Hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Few studies have analyzed contemporary data on outcomes at US teaching hospitals vs nonteaching hospitals.

Objective

To examine risk-adjusted outcomes for patients admitted to teaching vs nonteaching hospitals across a broad range of medical and surgical conditions.

Design, setting, and participants

Use of national Medicare data to compare mortality rates in US teaching and nonteaching hospitals for all hospitalizations and for common medical and surgical conditions among Medicare beneficiaries 65 years and older.

Exposures

Hospital teaching status: major teaching hospitals (members of the Council of Teaching Hospitals), minor teaching hospitals (other hospitals with medical school affiliation), and nonteaching hospitals (remaining hospitals).

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SUBMITTER: Burke LG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5815039 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature