Changes in Hospital Mortality Associated with Residency Work-Hour Regulations

  1. Kanaka D. Shetty, MD, MS; and
  2. Jayanta Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
  1. From Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California; Stanford University, Stanford, California; and National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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        Figure 1. Changes in mortality among medical patients.

        Top. Medical patients. Middle. Medical patient subgroups. Bottom. Medical patients, previous years. Error bars represent 95% CIs.

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          Figure 2. Changes in mortality among surgical patients.

          Error bars represent 95% CIs.

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