Does pediatric housestaff experience influence tests ordered for infants in the neonatal intensive care unit?
Interns order significantly more arterial blood gases per infant than junior and senior residents on-call in the neonatal ICU. Additional study is required to see if the experience of housestaff is associated with a broader array of neonatal outcomes, such as morbidity and mortality.
Although the curved electrode array appeared to evoke responses at lower thresholds, effect on patient performance was not obvious.