Staffing of Healthcare Workers and Patient Mortality: Randomized Trials Needed

Meeta Prasad Kerlin

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001706

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Staffing of Healthcare Workers and Patient Mortality: Randomized Trials Needed

Meeta Prasad Kerlin

* E-mail: meeta.prasad.kerlin@uphs.upenn.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Staffing of Healthcare Workers and Patient Mortality: Randomized Trials Needed

Meeta Prasad Kerlin

Published: August 19, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001706

About the Authors

Meeta Prasad Kerlin

* E-mail: meeta.prasad.kerlin@uphs.upenn.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: MPK. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MPK. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: MPK. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: MPK.

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