Effect of reducing interns' work hours on serious medical errors in intensive care units.

By C. Landrigan, J. Rothschild, John W. Cronin, R. Kaushal, E. Burdick, J. Katz, C. Lilly, Peter H. Stone, S. Lockley, David W. Bates and 1 more. New England Journal of Medicine, 2004

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Subfields: Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Medicine, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Imaging Brain Fatigue from Sustained Mental Workload: An ASL Perfusion Study of the Time-On-Task Effect (2009, background): “For example, many accidents involving truck drivers and medical personnel have been attributed at least in part to sleepiness, fatigue and lapses in vigilant attention (Landrigan et al., 2004; Arnedt et al., 2005).”
Association of resident fatigue and distress with perceived medical errors. (2009, background): “Within graduate medical education, training environments that result in excessive resident fatigue have been targeted by duty hour reforms and the most recent Institute of Medicine recommendations.(7,12,32,33) These results reaffirm the importance of efforts to control fatigue.”
Association of perceived medical errors with resident distress and empathy: a prospective longitudinal study. (2006, background): “Within graduate medical education, training environments that result in excessive resident fatigue have been targeted by duty-hour reforms.(61-63) However, all components of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education resident duty-hour limitations(62) were in effect, with documented co”
Hypothalamic regulation of sleep and circadian rhythms (2005, background): “Similarly, sleep loss might impair performance among adolescents who arise early for school, shift workers, overnight long-haul truckers and even medical personnel working in hospital”
Human factors systems approach to healthcare quality and patient safety (2013, background): “Improving the work system of residents, such as their work schedule, can reduce serious medical errors (Landrigan et al., 2004) and enhance resident well-being.”
Negative Impacts of Shiftwork and Long Work Hours (2014, background): “Also, Landrigan et al. (2004) and Barger et al. (2006) found that interns working long hours made more serious medical errors.”