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Influence of house-staff experience on teaching-hospital mortality: the "July Phenomenon" revisited.
October 5, 2011
van Walraven C, Jennings A, Wong J, et al. J Hosp Med. 2011;6(7):389-94.
A recent systematic review found evidence that patient outcomes do worsen in association with the academic year-end turnover of resident physicians. However, this methodologically sophisticated Canadian study found no evidence of worsened patient outcomes in July at a single teaching hospital.
