Effects of direction of rotation in continuous and discontinuous 8 hour shift systems

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 678-684

  Tucker, Philip ^a   Smith, Lawrence ^b   Macdonald, Ian ^c   Folkard, Simon ^c  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alertness; Health; Shift rotation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIFT WORKER; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP PATTERN; SOCIAL LIFE; WELLBEING; WORKING TIME;

ADULT; AROUSAL; COHORT STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL FATIGUE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; SLEEP; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 0033626745     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.57.10.678     Document Type: Article

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