"Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep, Supervision, and Safety": Response of the Association of Program Directors in Surgery to the December 2008 Report of the Institute of Medicine

Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 420-427

  Borman, Karen R ^a   Fuhrman, George M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ATLANTA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EDUCATION; COMPETENCE; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; SLEEP TIME; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING; UNITED STATES; WORK SCHEDULE; WORKING TIME; WORKLOAD;

CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; GENERAL SURGERY; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SLEEP; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION; UNITED STATES; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 68949220848     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.06.023     Document Type: Editorial

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