The effects of on-duty napping on intern sleep time and fatigue

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 144, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 792-798

  Arora, Vineet ^a   Dunphy, Carrie ^b   Chang, Vivian Y ^b   Ahmad, Fawaz ^c   Humphrey, Holly J ^b   Meltzer, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIMETRY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RESIDENT; SLEEP TIME; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TEACHING HOSPITAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; INTERNAL MEDICINE; PATIENT CARE; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; WORK SCHEDULE;

CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FATIGUE; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 33744970953     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-144-11-200606060-00005     Document Type: Article

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