Sleep deprivation: a call for institutional rules.

Logan McKenna; Ira J. Kodner; Gerald B. Healy; Jason D. Keune

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Sleep deprivation: a call for institutional rules.

September 25, 2013

McKenna L, Kodner IJ, Healy GB, et al. Surgery. 2013;154(1):118-22.

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