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Resident supervision and patient safety: do different levels of resident supervision affect the rate of morbidity and mortality cases?

Van Leer PE, Lavine EK, Rabrich JS, Wiener DE, Clark MA, Wong TYS. J Emerg Med. 2015 Jul 30; [Epub ahead of print].

In this retrospective study, adverse outcomes did not differ between care teams led by senior residents versus attending physicians in an academic emergency department. Furthermore, there was no evidence of a "July Effect," as the number of morbidity and mortality cases did not change in the beginning of the academic year.

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