Teaching hospital five-year mortality trends in the wake of duty hour reforms

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1048-1055

  Volpp, Kevin G ^a,b,c,d   Small, Dylan S ^c   Romano, Patrick S ^e   Itani, Kamal M F ^f   Rosen, Amy K ^g,h   Even Shoshan, Orit ^i,j   Wang, Yanli ⁱ   Bellini, Lisa ^b   Halenar, Michael J ^a,b   Korovaichuk, Sophia ⁱ   Zhu, Jingsan ^b,d   Silber, Jeffrey H ^c,d,i,j  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

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

ⁱ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

ACGME; administrative data; duty hour reform; mortality; patient outcomes

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; EMERGENCY CARE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GENERAL SURGERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL PATIENT; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VASCULAR SURGERY; WORKING TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MEDICARE; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; UNITED STATES; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 84880507600     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-013-2401-9     Document Type: Article

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