Letter to the Editor

Abstract

We certainly agree with Dr. Rako that a fulltime Chief of Pediatrics in a Community Hospital should decrease unnecessary hospital admissions. We currently have an opportunity to reexamine the admission practices of one of the community hospitals studied earlier to see if such is the case; our preliminary findings suggest that the full-time chief, without a critical house staff, may have disappointingly little influence on the criteria used for admission. In regard to the comment of "I. M. Tired": we are having pediatricians from community hospitals review records from the "Ivory Tower" and from the community hospitals; hopefully this will have an educational value for both professional groups.