摘要：CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS are unique, or at least their administrators believe that they are. In the mid-1970s children's hospital administrators commissioned a study that quantified the differences between children's hospitals and more general health care institutions [1]. Because a children's hospital is usually the only health care institution of its kind in a community, it is difficult for a children's hospital department head tocompare his department with its counterparts in Ather children's hospitals. That this comparative information is not readily available hinders children's hospital department heads in their attempts to show administration when their departments are below par in comparison to similar departments in other children's hospitals.
