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M D Stein1, S Hanson, D Tammaro, L Hanna, A S Most.
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.Entities:
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Year: 1998 PMID: 9824525 PMCID: PMC1497025 DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.1998.00231.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Gen Intern Med ISSN: 0884-8734 Impact factor: 5.128