Perspective: Creating an ethical workplace: Reverberations of resident work hours reform

Academic Medicine

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 315-319

  Lopez, Lenny ^a,b,c   Katz, Joel T ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORALITY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONALISM; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; REVIEW; WORKING TIME; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE; ARTICLE; EMPATHY; ETHICS; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EMPATHY; ETHICS, PROFESSIONAL; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 63249094752     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181971ee1     Document Type: Review

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