PURPOSE Healthcare organizations often have to provide patient care around the clock. Shift work (any shift outside of 7 a.m. to 6 p.m) and long work hours increase the risk for short sleep duration and sleep disturbances. Thirty-two percent of healthcare workers report they do not get enough sleep. The purpose of the article is to give an overview of the wide range of risks to nurses, patients...

A dvances in medicine are driven by propagation of research and dissemination of meaningful results from basic science, clinical, or translational studies. Although a randomized controlled trial has the highest power, this is not the most frequently conducted study method in surgery, as randomized trials are often not feasible due to disease infrequen-cy or an inability to conduct an ethically ...

We examine the distribution of hours of work across industrial sectors in OECD countries. We find large disparities when sectors are divided into three groups: one that produces goods without home substitutes and two others that have home substitutes — health and social work, and all others. We attribute the disparities to the countries’ tax and subsidy policies. High taxation substantially red...

BACKGROUND Koreans typically work long hours. We herein analyze the relationship between the level of working hours and extent of stress complaints. METHODS We analyzed stress complaints with respect to hours worked per week, as reported by 7,075 subjects, using data from the 2006 First Korean Working Conditions Survey. Subjects were categorized as those working fewer than 40 hr per week (sho...

OBJECTIVES To understand the characteristics of women physicians who work reduced hours in dual-earner couples and how such work schedules affect the quality of the marital role, parental role, and job role, as well as indicators of psychological distress, burnout, career satisfaction, and life satisfaction. METHODS Survey of a random sample of female physicians between 25 and 50 years of age...

OBJECTIVES The present study was designed to identify the association between work hours and obesity in Korean adult manual and nonmanual workers, and to determine whether there is a gender difference in this association. METHODS The study was conducted using Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data collected between 2007 and 2010. Individuals aged below 25 or over 64 year...

Severe Raynaud's phenomenon can result in ulceration of the finger tips. Digital ulceration or gangrene may also be caused by non-vasospastic conditions. Emboli may be discharged from the fibrillating atrium, the ventricle after a myocardial infarction, or from an aneurysm of thhe subclavian artery. Arteriovenous malformations in the hand can cause enough shunting of blood to result in distal i...