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Safety in numbers: lack of evidence to indicate the number of physicians needed to provide safe acute medical care.

November 5, 2014

Sabin J, Subbe CP, Vaughan L, et al. Clin Med (Lond). 2014;14(5):462-7.

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Many studies have explored how staffing levels influence safe and reliable patient care. Focusing on physician staffing in acute internal medicine, this review describes the way workload, process timing, patient complexity, service set-up, and team skill mix affect staffing needs.

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