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Letters |17 January 2012

Impact of the “July Effect” on Patient Outcomes

Louella Vaughan, DPhil; Derek Bell, MD; Graeme McAlister

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  • From Imperial College London, London SW10 9NH, United Kingdom, and Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH2 1JQ, United Kingdom.
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TO THE EDITOR:
We read with interest Young and colleagues' article 21 and the accompanying editorial 21 on the “July effect,” with a view to our own recent trans-Atlantic experience. Just as July is regarded with trepidation in the United States, so is the first Wednesday in August in the United Kingdom—the traditional changeover day for an estimated 50 000 junior doctors.
Following the recent work of one of our authors 21, which demonstrated a significant increase in mortality on the first Wednesday in August compared with the last Wednesday in July, we...
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Vaughan L, Bell D, McAlister G. Impact of the “July Effect” on Patient Outcomes. Ann Intern Med. 2012;156:167–168. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-156-2-201201170-00021

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2012;156(2):167-168.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-156-2-201201170-00021

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