Teaching hospital financial status and patient outcomes following ACGME duty hour reform

Health Services Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2 PART1, 2013, Pages 476-498

  Navathe, Amol S ^a,b,c   Silber, Jeffrey H ^a,b,d   Small, Dylan S ^a,b   Rosen, Amy K ^e,f   Romano, Patrick S ^g   Even Shoshan, Orit ^a,d   Wang, Yanli ^d   Zhu, Jingsan ^a   Halenar, Michael J ^a,h   Volpp, Kevin G ^a,b,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

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

^f Leadership and Management Research Veteran's Administration Hospital   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

health policy; hospital financial health; patient outcomes; quality of care; Resident duty hour reform

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL FINANCE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORK SCHEDULE;

AGE FACTORS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); OWNERSHIP; PATIENT SAFETY; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY;

EID: 84875051223     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2012.01453.x     Document Type: Article

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