TY  - JOUR
T1  - TEaching hospital status and operative mortality in the united states
AU  - Livingston EH
Y1  - 2010/10/01
N1  - 10.1001/archsurg.2010.209
JO  - Archives of Surgery
SP  - 1025
EP  - 1025
VL  - 145
IS  - 10
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0004-0010
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archsurg.2010.209
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.2010.209
ER  -