Abstract
Financial pressure of multifactorial etiology promises to create new obstacles for academic anesthesia departments. Integrating the priorities of the academic and clinical mission of the anesthesia department, the medical school, and the university hospital will require that anesthesia departments operate with maximal operational efficiency. Maintenance or expansion of institutional infrastructural support of the university anesthesia department will be necessary to achieve operational efficiencies, and to ensure that the safety of our patients is in no way compromised by financial concerns. Previous studies have documented increasing need for monetary institutional supports of academic anesthesia departments [1]. The purpose of this study is to delineate non-monetary institutional support afforded to academic anesthesia departments by their University Hospitals. After IRB approval, we electronically solicited the response to a 63 question survey (43 of which were used for the present study) from all 133 chairpersons of academic anesthesia departments in the United States. The remaining 20 questions were unrelated to the topics presented in this manuscript. 62 responded electronically, for an overall response rate of 46.6%. This study establishes the current state of infrastructural support afforded to academic anesthesia departments in the United States.
Highlights
A confluence of negative economic events has recently challenged the global economy and the healthcare industry
The safe clinical management and operational efficiency of an academic anesthesia department is greatly influenced by the non-monetary support that it receives from the University Hospital with which it is affiliated
As continued financial pressure is exerted on academic institutions and University Hospitals, it will be increasing important for academic anesthesia departments to receive adequate infrastructural support to ensure both the safety of our patients and an operational efficiency that is necessary to ensure financial solvency
Summary
A confluence of negative economic events has recently challenged the global economy and the healthcare industry. The safe clinical management and operational efficiency of an academic anesthesia department is greatly influenced by the non-monetary support that it receives from the University Hospital with which it is affiliated. As continued financial pressure is exerted on academic institutions and University Hospitals, it will be increasing important for academic anesthesia departments to receive adequate infrastructural support to ensure both the safety of our patients and an operational efficiency that is necessary to ensure financial solvency. The purpose of this survey is to delineate the current standard of non-monetary infrastructural support afforded to academic anesthesia departments by their University Hospitals. We believe that the results of this survey will serve as a reference for institutional comparison and help to establish normative data
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