Influence of house-staff experience on teaching-hospital mortality: The "July Phenomenon" revisited

Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 389-394

  van Walraven, Carl ^a,b,c   Jennings, Alison ^b   Wong, Jenna ^b   Forster, Alan J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; JULY PHENOMENON; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEACHING HOSPITAL; WORK EXPERIENCE;

AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; SEASONS;

EID: 80052842012     PISSN: 15535592     EISSN: 15535606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhm.917     Document Type: Article

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