House staff team workload and organization effects on patient outcomes in an academic general internal medicine inpatient service

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-52

  Ong, Michael ^a   Bostrom, Alan ^b   Vidyarthi, Arpana ^b   McCulloch, Charles ^b   Auerbach, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SERVICE; MEDICAL STAFF; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORKLOAD;

AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 33846108687     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.167.1.47     Document Type: Article

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