Resident duty hours enhancing sleep, supervision, and safety
Medical residents in hospitals are often required to be on duty for long hours. In 2003 the organization overseeing graduate medical education adopted common program requirements to restrict resident workweeks, including limits to an average of 80 hours over 4 weeks and the longest consecutive perio...
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Washington, DC :
National Academies Press
c2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Background and overview
- Current duty hours and monitoring adherence
- Adapting the resident educational and work environment to duty hour limits
- Improving the resident learning environment
- Impact of duty hours on resident well-being
- Contributions to error in the training environment
- Strategies to reduce fatigue risk in resident work schedules
- System strategies to improve patient safety and error prevention
- Resources to implement imvprovements for patient safety and resident training.
- Appendices: Statement of task
- Comparison of select scheduling possibilities under committee recommendations and under 2003 ACGME duty hour rules
- International experiences limiting resident duty hours
- Glossary, acronyms, and abbreviations
- Committee member biographies
- Public meeting agendas.
