RT Journal
A1 Livingston EH
T1 TEaching hospital status and operative mortality in the united states
JF Archives of Surgery
JO Archives of Surgery
YR 2010
FD October 1
VO 145
IS 10
SP 1025
OP 1025
DO 10.1001/archsurg.2010.209
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.2010.209
AB 
Teaching hospitals provide care for higher-risk patients than non-THs. Because of their training mission, THs accept patients with advanced-stage or complex diseases that non-THs generally do not want to provide care for because of the greater time and expense associated with the clinical care these high-risk patients need. Given this reality, when comparing outcomes between these very different clinical care environments, a patient's baseline risk must be accounted for.