Reducing Resident Work Hours: Unproven Assumptions and Unforeseen Outcomes

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 140, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 814-815

  Charap, Mitchell ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; HEALTH CARE POLICY; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; REVIEW; WORKING TIME;

EID: 2442535920     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-140-10-200405180-00011     Document Type: Review

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