CRICO Insights: September 2018

Top 5 most cited CRICO-funded research projects

1.

The impact of the 80-hour resident workweek on surgical residents and attending surgeons [citation]

2.

Redefining and redesigning hospital discharge to enhance patient care: a randomized controlled study [citation]

3.

Communication practices on four Harvard surgical services: a surgical safety collaborative [citation]

4.

Assessing the rates of error and adverse events in the ED [citation]

5.

What patients value about reading visit notes: a qualitative inquiry [citation]


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