What The Study Did: This observational study of hospitalized Medicare patients examined the association between the number of days worked clinically per year by hospitalist physicians and patient mortality rates.
Authors: Hirotaka Kato, Ph.D., of Keio University in Tokyo, is the corresponding author.
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