Supervised Residents Compared To Attending Physicians Alone in Emergency Department Resource is Being Used

A study in the December 10 issue of iJAMA/i, a theme issue on medical education, in a sample of U.S. emergency departments, compared to attending physicians alone, found that supervised visits (involving both resident and attending physicians) were associated with a greater likelihood of hospital admission and use of advanced imaging and with longer emergency department stays. A common assumption is that care at academic medical centers costs more than care ...

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