title: Educational costs to hospitalized patients.
abstract: One of the less obvious costs of educational programs is the increased volume of work-ups and treatment for hospitalized patients that are ordered by residents. In a hospital which has both private teaching and private nonteaching floors, a comparison of these costs shows that service charges on teaching floors are 60 percent higher than on nonteaching floors. The sicker the patients are, the greater is the disparity.
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003691:Delaware; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000191:economics*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000191:economics*; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies