Impact of the 80-hour workweek on patient care at a level I trauma center.

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Published in Arch Surg on August 01, 2007

Authors

Ali Salim1, Pedro G R Teixeira, Linda Chan, Didem Oncel, Kenji Inaba, Carlos Brown, Peter Rhee, Thomas V Berne

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Critical Care, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine Los Angeles, CA, USA. asalim@surgery.usc.edu

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