Comparison of Outcome Measures for a Traditional Pediatric Faculty Service and Nonfaculty Hospitalist Services in a Community Teaching Hospital

Abstract

Traditional faculty models can be as efficient in terms of total direct costs and length of stay as evolving hospitalist models. This study's results may be unique because the traditional faculty model was composed of general pediatricians instead of a blend of generalists and subspecialists. In addition, the traditional faculty physicians concentrated almost entirely on the care of inpatients while engaged in hospital care.