Functional alignment, not structural integration, of medical schools and teaching hospitals is associated with high performance in academic health centers.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:Debates continue regarding optimal structures for governance and administration between medical schools and their teaching hospitals. METHODS:Structural integration (SI) for 85 academic health centers was characterized as high (single leader or fiduciary) or low (multiple leaders or fiduciaries). Functional alignment (FA) was estimated from questionnaire responses by teaching hospitals' chief executive officers, and an index was calculated quantifying organizational collaboration across several functional areas. SI and FA were examined for their association with global performance measures in teaching, research, clinical care, finance, and efficiency. RESULTS:AHCs with high SI had significantly higher FA, though overlap between high-SI and low-SI institutions was considerable. SI was not significantly associated with any performance measure. In contrast, FA was significantly associated with higher performance in teaching, research, and finance but not clinical care and efficiency. CONCLUSIONS:FA between medical schools and their primary teaching hospitals more strongly predicts academic health centers' performance than does SI. As demands for greater collaboration increase under health reform, emphasis should be placed on increasing FA rather than SI.

journal_name

Am J Surg

authors

Keroack MA,McConkie NR,Johnson EK,Epting GJ,Thompson IM,Sanfilippo F

doi

10.1016/j.amjsurg.2011.05.001

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-08-01 00:00:00

pages

119-26

issue

2

eissn

0002-9610

issn

1879-1883

pii

S0002-9610(11)00312-6

journal_volume

202

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