Hospitals may sicken many by withholding food and sleep

Tuesday, October 6, 2015 - 16:20 in Health & Medicine

A Johns Hopkins surgeon and prominent patient safety researcher is calling on hospitals to reform emergency room, surgical and other medical protocols that sicken up to half of already seriously ill patients — in some cases severely — with preventable and potentially dangerous bouts of food and sleep deprivation. In a commentary published ahead of […]

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