Residents' hours of work

Hours of Work

Hospitalwide adverse drug events before and after limiting weekly work hours of medical residents to 80.

PURPOSE Adverse drug events (ADEs) at a hospital before and after the weekly work hours of medical residents were limited to 80 were studied. METHODS The study population included all adults admitted to a 750-bed academic tertiary care hospital where resident physicians provide direct care under the supervision of faculty attending physicians. The six-month period after implementation of the ...

An elusive balance--residents' work hours and the continuity of care.

n engl j med 356;26 www.nejm.org june 28, 2007 2665 attending physicians, health care researchers, and sleep-medicine experts suggest that neither patient care nor medical education is optimal under the current system and that further reforms are needed. But there is little agreement on what should be done or even on whether the work-hour limits should be tightened or relaxed. U.S. teaching hos...

Employment and Hours of Work

This paper develops a dynamic model of the labor market in which the degree of substitution between employment and hours of work is determined as part of a search equilibrium. Each firm chooses the demand for working hours and the number of vacancies, and the hourly wage rate is determined by Nash bargaining. A firm increases the demand for hours as recruitment becomes more costly. Labor market...

Hippocrates affirmed? Limiting residents' work hours does no harm to patients.

to Patients In 2003, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) required residency training programs to restrict the number of hours that housestaff worked. The work-hour rules included a limit of 80 hours per week, a maximum duty period of 30 hours, a minimum break of 10 hours between duty periods, and at least 1 day in 7 free from clinical and educational obligations (1)...