With the exception of cancer care, university hospitals generally do not provide higher quality of care than other hospitals, according to a recent study that evaluated data from 118 university hospitals and compared them with data from general, acute and non-federal U.S. hospitals.

The study, titled “An Assessment of the Quality of University Hospital Care in the U.S.,” found that although university hospitals do very well as a group in cancer care and in overall medical care, in many clinical categories they either performed the same as non-university hospitals or sometimes far worse.