Do resident work-hour caps save lives?

There is a mild improvement in medical patients, but none for surgical patients:

“Before the regulations, 60 out of every 1,000 medical patients died. After the regulations, the number of deaths was 57 or 58 out of every 1,000,” said the study’s lead author, Kanaka Shetty . . .

. . . Another 200,000 surgical patients were also examined, but the new rules did not seem to have an impact on their death rate.

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