RT Journal
A1 Auerbach AD, Berger MS, Wachter RM
T1 AChieving comanagment’s potential requires system redesign and hospitalist-focused training—reply
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2011
FD July 25
VO 171
IS 14
SP 1299
OP 1300
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.324
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.324
AB 
We thank Levin and Glasheen for their letter. We agree that our chosen quality and safety measures did not include several care processes or complications potentially affected by hospitalists' involvement. However, we would expect that such complications would have led to higher costs of care and potentially even higher risks of mortality and readmissions. Because we observed significantly lower costs and no change in mortality or readmission rate, we believe that it is unlikely that our study completely missed identifying a strong underlying impact on an important care process or complication.1