The 80-Hour Resident Workweek Does Not Adversely Affect Patient Outcomes or Resident Education

Current Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 435-439

  de Virgilio, Christian ^a   Yaghoubian, Arezou ^a   Lewis, Roger J ^a   Stabile, Bruce E ^a   Putnam, Brant A ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CERTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EVISCERATION; HUMAN; INJURY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LICENSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPTICEMIA; SURGICAL TRAINING; UNITED STATES; WORK SCHEDULE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGERY; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 33750464528     PISSN: 01497944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cursur.2006.03.006     Document Type: Article

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