Abstract
In this issue of the Journal of Critical Care, Lee and colleagues present their retrospective analysis of a cohort of patients cared for in 2 intensive care units co-located within a single hospital by junior surgical and senior surgical residents. The principal finding of the analysis was that patients assigned to junior surgical residents had a significantly higher mortality than those assigned to senior surgical residents (24.7% vs 17.7%) despite the fact that both groups of trainees were supervised by a common group of attending surgeons [1]. Perhaps the most interesting comment in the article is found in the discussion, where the authors state:
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