Interns' compliance with Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education work-hour limits

JAMA

Volumn 296, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1063-1070

  Landrigan, Christopher P ^a,b   Barger, Laura K ^a,b   Cade, Brian E ^a   Ayas, Najib T ^a,b,c   Czeisler, Charles A ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; SLEEP TIME; WORKING TIME; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SLEEP DISORDER; COHORT ANALYSIS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WORK SCHEDULE;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; SLEEP DISORDERS, CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 33748435797     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.296.9.1063     Document Type: Article

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