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  • Title: Surgical critical care and private practice surgeons: a different world out there!
    Author: Cohn SM, Price MA, Stewart RM, Corneille MG, Myers JG, McCarthy J, Jonas RB, Hargis SM, Dent DL.
    Journal: J Am Coll Surg; 2008 Mar; 206(3):419-25. PubMed ID: 18308210.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: Few graduating residents seek surgical critical care (SCC) fellowships; fewer than half of positions fill. We hypothesized substantial differences exist in practice patterns and attitudes between SCC surgeons in academic practice (ACs) and in private practice (PVTs). STUDY DESIGN: A survey instrument was sent to 1,544 board-certified SCC intensivists in North America. RESULTS: Of those invited, 489 responded (32% response rate). Respondents were mostly men (88%) and Caucasian (86%), with a mean age of 48 years; 60% were ACs, 28% were PVTs, and 12% reported "other;" 94% currently practiced SCC. PVTs (50%) were more likely than ACs (18%) to provide SCC for only their own patients, less likely (24% versus 74%) to function as an "ICU attending," and less likely to work with residents (36% versus 91%) and fellows (4% versus 60%; all p < 0.001). PVTs (48%) spent more time performing elective operations than ACs (27%; p < 0.001). They were more likely than ACs to relinquish management of SCC patients to medical consultants: infectious disease (34% versus 12%), cardiology (31% versus 12%), and pulmonary (23% versus 3%; all p < 0.001). Conflicts with medical specialists were a bigger problem for PVTs (43%) than for ACs (17%; p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Private practice surgical intensivists are more likely than academic intensivists to provide critical care for only their own patients and to use consultants to avoid conflicts.
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