Association of the 2011 ACGME Resident Duty Hour Reforms With Mortality and Readmissions Among Hospitalized Medicare Patients
JAMAPublished 9 December 2014Open access
Mitesh S. Patel, Kevin G. Volpp, Dylan S. Small, Alex S. Hill, Orit Even‐Shoshan, Lisa Rosenbaum
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There were no significant differences in the change in 30-day mortality rates or 30- day all-cause readmission rates for those hospitalized in more intensive relative to less intensive teaching hospitals in the year after implementation of the 2011 ACGME duty hour reforms compared with those hospitalised in the 2 years before implementation.
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Among Medicare beneficiaries, there were no significant differences in the change in 30-day mortality rates or 30-day all-cause readmission rates for those hospitalized in more intensive relative to less intensive teaching hospitals in the year after implementation of the 2011 ACGME duty hour reforms compared with those hospitalized in the 2 years before implementation.
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