In a recent report at the New England Journal of Medicine, David J. Shulkin, M.D. writes about the dramatic difference in care that is available during day hours versus those at night. This post at the Wall Street Journal gives some of the differences of what people will find during the day: fewer nurses, longer waits, few managers and a huge change in the quality of care available.
What does this result in? Often times during the night shift at hospitals, statistics show that there is a higher mortality rate, more complications arise during surgery, and errors happen more often. There maybe more reasons for this due to a nursing shortage, fewer residents being able to work, and less funding from the federal government.
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