Like Night and Day — Shedding Light on Off-Hours Care
- 15 May 2008
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 358 (20) , 2091-2093
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp0707144
Abstract
Lately, I've been coming to work at midnight. You see, I've begun making late-night administrative rounds at the hospital where I am president and chief executive officer. No, I'm not nostalgic for my harrowing days as a resident. Rather, these middle-of-the-nighters are part of an initiative of mine intended to address a matter that is of increasing concern at hospitals throughout the country: the stark discrepancy in quality between daytime and nighttime inpatient services.Keywords
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