Things We Do for No Reason™: NPO After Midnight

Meghan Km Black^{1

2}, M Concetta Lupa³, Laura W Lemley⁴, Elizabeth B Dreesen⁵, Alyssa M Deaton⁶, Richard M Wardrop 3rd^{7

8}

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
² Section of General Internal Medicine, Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama.
³ Departments of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, North Carolina Children's Hospital, UNC Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
⁵ Division of General and Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, UNC Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
⁷ Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi.
⁸ Division of Hospital Medicine, St. Dominic's Hospital, Jackson, Mississippi.

Meghan Km Black et al. J Hosp Med. 2021 Jun.

. 2021 Jun;16(6):368-370.

doi: 10.12788/jhm.3537.

Meghan Km Black^{1

2}, M Concetta Lupa³, Laura W Lemley⁴, Elizabeth B Dreesen⁵, Alyssa M Deaton⁶, Richard M Wardrop 3rd^{7

8}

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
² Section of General Internal Medicine, Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama.
³ Departments of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, North Carolina Children's Hospital, UNC Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
⁵ Division of General and Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, UNC Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
⁷ Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi.
⁸ Division of Hospital Medicine, St. Dominic's Hospital, Jackson, Mississippi.

No abstract available

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