TITLE:
A Survey of Non-Monetary Institutional Infrastructural Support of Academic Anesthesia Departments in the United States
AUTHORS:
Steven H. Ginsberg, Jonathan Kraidin, Christopher Gallagher, Donald Hoover, Al Solina
KEYWORDS:
Non Monetary Support; Infrastructural Support; Anesthesia Sites
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Anesthesiology,
Vol.3 No.5,
July
19,
2013
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.