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Rates of adverse events in hospitalized patients after summer-time resident changeover in the United States: is there a July effect?
August 25, 2021
Metersky ML, Eldridge N, Wang Y, et al. J Patient Saf. 2022;18(3):253-259.
The July Effect is a belief that the quality of care delivered in academic medical centers decreases during July and August due to the arrival of new trainees. Using data from the Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System, this retrospective cohort, including over 185,000 hospital admissions from 2010 to 2017, found that patients admitted to teaching hospitals in July and August did not experience higher rates of adverse events compared to patients admitted to non-teaching hospitals.
