The impact of resident duty hour reform on hospital readmission rates among Medicare beneficiaries.

Matthew J. Press; Jeffrey H. Silber; Amy K. Rosen; Patrick S. Romano; Kamal M F Itani; Jingsan Zhu; Yanli Wang; Orit Even-Shoshan; Michael J. Halenar; Kevin G. Volpp

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The impact of resident duty hour reform on hospital readmission rates among Medicare beneficiaries.

April 27, 2011

Press MJ, Silber JH, Rosen AK, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2011;26(4):405-11.

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The 2003 residency duty hour regulations were not associated with a change in the 30-day hospital readmission rate for Medicare patients hospitalized with common medical or surgical conditions.

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