Association of workload of on-call medical interns with on-call sleep duration, shift duration, and participation in educational activities

JAMA

Volumn 300, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1146-1153

  Arora, Vineet M ^a,c,d   Georgitis, Emily ^a   Siddique, Juned ^b   Vekhter, Ben ^a   Woodruff, James N ^a   Humphrey, Holly J ^a,c   Meltzer, David O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d AMB B217   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL MEDICAL AIDS; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHIFT WORKER; SLEEP TIME; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORKING TIME; WORKLOAD; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; INTERNAL MEDICINE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES; WORK SCHEDULE;

COHORT STUDIES; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; PATIENT ADMISSION; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; UNITED STATES; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 51449095959     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.300.10.1146     Document Type: Article

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