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Cost implications of ACGME's 2011 changes to resident duty hours and the training environment.
November 26, 2014
Nuckols TK, Escarce JJ. J Gen Intern Med. 2012;27(2):241-9.
This cost analysis of the 2011 duty hour regulations for resident physicians demonstrates that the regulations will almost certainly result in increased costs for teaching hospitals, unless preventable adverse events decline substantially after the new regulations are implemented.
