title: University pediatric surgery: benchmarking performance.
abstract: The many ways monies enter and leave a university pediatric section are as poorly understood as the value and relationship to the parent hospital or university. This blinded confidential financial performance survey of similar university pediatric surgery sections begins to benchmark performance and define those relationships.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, NY 10032, USA. cjs3@Columbia.edu
authors.forename: Charles J H
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Stolar
authors.forename: Aileen A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Alapan
authors.forename: Solomon A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Torres
mesh_terms: D000067:Accounts Payable and Receivable; D019985:Benchmarking / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002648:Child; D004469:Economics, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000191:economics; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000191:economics; D013502:General Surgery / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric / Q000191:economics; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008485:Medical Audit; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000191:economics