Departmental resources and statistics of academic pathology.

The resources needed to operate an academic pathology department have not been evaluated for several years. Fifty academic pathology departments in this country returned a 14-page questionnaire that included information about procedures, personnel, space, and patient load. These data were summarized using means, percentiles, ratios, and linear regression analyses. The average academic pathology department performed more than 5,000 procedures for 1,200 inpatients and outpatients per day and produced 42 publications per year. The results of this study may assist members of the academic pathology community in assessing current and future needs.