Sleep loss in resident physicians: The cause of medical errors?

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn OCT, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kramer, Milton ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Changes in resident review; Sleep loss medical errors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861495858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2010.00128     Document Type: Article

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