Effect of reducing interns' weekly work hours on sleep and attentional failures.

By S. Lockley, John W. Cronin, Erin E. Evans, B. Cade, Clark J. Lee, C. Landrigan, J. Rothschild, J. Katz, C. Lilly, Peter H. Stone and 2 more. New England Journal of Medicine, 2004

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Subfields: Emergency Medicine, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, General Health Professions

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• Perinatal mortality and congenital anomalies in babies of women with type 1 or type 2 diabetes in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland: population based study (2006, positive): “Notwithstanding these potential confounders, the results are consistent with previous laboratory and field data.(2,3,16) EXTENDED WORK DURATION AND RISK OF SELF-REPORTED PERCUTANEOUS INJURIES IN INTERNS”
• Temporal trends in rates of patient harm resulting from medical care. (2010, background): “Harms that were detected were a consequence of procedures (186), medications (162), nosocomial infections (87), other therapies (59), diagnostic evaluations (7), and falls (5), among other causes (Table 1).”
• Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation: An Unmet Public Health Problem (2006, background): “Under the intervention schedule, the article reported that residents slept nearly 6 more hours per week, and they experienced half the rate of attentional failures during on-call nights than under the traditional schedule (Lockley et al., 2004).”
• The link between fatigue and safety. (2011, background): “In a single-centre ranomized cross-over trial of 20 interns working on two different chedules, Landrigan et al. (2004) and Lockley et al. (2004) showed 6% increase in serious medical errors and nearly six times increase n serious diagnostic errors on a traditional on-call schedule with 4-h or…”
• Beyond workaholism: Towards a general model of heavy work investment (2012, background): “, parents) work excessively, they may develop a tendency to treat their own work in the samemanner, because they are influenced by those important role models (Machlowitz, 1980). On the other hand, onemay also claim that adult children of workaholics will do their best not to replicate their parents”
• Sleep Loss and Fatigue in Shift Work and Shift Work Disorder (2009, background): “Lockely et al showed similar values in interns on call.(15)”