Safety of using a computerized rounding and sign-out system to reduce resident duty hours

Academic Medicine

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1189-1195

  Van Eaton, Erik G ^a   McDonough, Karen ^a   Lober, William B ^b   Johnson, Eric A ^c   Pellegrini, Carlos A ^a   Horvath, Karen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c GROUP HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 77954898308     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181e0116f     Document Type: Article

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