Complying with ACGME resident duty hours restrictions: Restructuring the 80-hour workweek to enhance education and patient safety at Texas A&M/Scott & White memorial hospital

Academic Medicine

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1026-1031

  Ogden, Paul E ^a   Sibbitt, Stephen ^a   Howell, Martha ^a   Rice, David ^a   O'Brien, Jeana ^a   Aguirre, Roberto ^a   Naus, Peter ^a   DiPette, Donald ^a  

^a SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDUCATION PROGRAM; INTERNAL MEDICINE; JOB SATISFACTION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; REVIEW; TEAMWORK; UNITED STATES; WORK SCHEDULE;

EID: 33751393987     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ACM.0000246688.93566.28     Document Type: Review

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