The association between physician turnover (the "July Effect") and survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The July Effect refers to adverse outcomes that occur as a result of turnover of the physician workforce in teaching hospitals during the month of June.

Objective

As a surrogate for physician turnover, we used a multivariable difference-in-difference approach to determine if there was a difference in outcomes between May and July in teaching versus non-teaching hospitals.

Design

We used prospectively collected observational data from United States hospitals participating in the Get With The Guidelines^®-Resuscitation registry. Participants were adults with index in-hospital cardiac arrest between 2005-2014. They were a priori divided by location of arrest (general medical/surgical ward, intensive care unit, emergency department). The primary outco

SUBMITTER: Myers L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6039816 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature