Academic medical centers and government

Advertising by academic medical centers.

BACKGROUND Many academic medical centers have increased their use of advertising to attract patients. While the content of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertisements (ads) has been studied, to our knowledge, advertising by academic medical centers has not. We aimed to characterize advertising by the nation's top academic medical centers. METHODS We contacted all 17 medical centers named...

Academic medical centers and conflicts of interest.

Understanding academic medical centers: Simone's Maxims.

INTRODUCTION Academic medical centers today represent a unique fusion of traditional academia, hospital functions, several levels of education, and, above all, patients. They are complex organizations trying to discharge an often conflicting melange of responsibilities. This complexity has grown in recent years with the increasingly rapid rate of change (1), stressing both faculty and leadershi...

Physician assistant and nurse practitioner utilization in academic medical centers.

The purpose of this study was to collect information on the utilization of physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) in academic health centers. Data were gathered from a national sample of University HealthSystem Consortium member academic medical centers (AMCs). PAs and NPs have been integrated into most services of respondent AMCs, where they are positively rated for the value...

Strategic groups and performance differences among academic medical centers.

BACKGROUND The performance of academic medical centers (AMCs) differs from that of other hospitals because AMCs must combine the delivery of patient care with teaching and research. PURPOSE : This study investigates the effects of strategic group membership as opposed to other structural determinants on the performance of AMCs. METHODOLOGY We used data from 24 German AMCs and applied data e...