Why the study?
Does care at teaching hospitals improve mortality and cost-effectiveness in Medicare patients undergoing surgical treatment for hip fractures compared to nonteaching hospitals?
Does care at teaching hospitals improve mortality and cost-effectiveness in Medicare patients undergoing surgical treatment for hip fractures compared to nonteaching hospitals?
While teaching hospitals provide a small survival benefit for hip fracture patients, the high incremental cost per life saved suggests it may not be a cost-effective use of resources by standard metrics.
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Teaching hospitals' modest survival benefit in hip fracture surgery comes at high cost per life saved; observational data leave open whether this trade-off warrants referral.
McGuire et al. (2011) studied this question.
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