Prolonged hospital stay and the resident duty hour rules of 2003

Medical Care

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1191-1200

  Silber, Jeffrey H ^a,b,c,d   Rosenbaum, Paul R ^c   Rosen, Amy K ^e,f   Romano, Patrick S ^g   Itani, Kamal M F ^h   Cen, Liyi ⁱ   Mi, Lanyu ^a   Halenar, Michael J ^b,i   Even Shoshan, Orit ^a,d   Volpp, Kevin G ^c,d  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f Center for Health Quality Outcomes and Economic Research   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Difference in differences; Prolonged length of stay; Teaching hospitals

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICARE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; RESIDENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; VASCULAR SURGERY; WORK SCHEDULE; ACCREDITATION; AGED; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACCREDITATION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICARE; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 73349143632     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3181adcbff     Document Type: Article

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