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July Effect: Impact of the Academic Year-End Changeover on Patient Outcomes. A Systematic Review

John Q. Young, MD, MPP; Sumant R. Ranji, MD; Robert M. Wachter, MD; Connie M. Lee, MD; Brian Niehaus, MD; and Andrew D. Auerbach, MD, MPH Annals of Internal Medicine, 2011, Published on line ahead of print

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 Very interesting article that finds (not unexpectedly) that there are more adverse events early after a transition in junior medical staff.

 

This marries well with the findings of other papers, most notably one undertaken at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne,...


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