Resident duty hours in surgery for ensuring patient safety, providing optimum resident education and training, and promoting resident well-being: A response from the American College of Surgeons to the Report of the Institute of Medicine, "Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep, Supervision, and Safety"

Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 398-409

  Britt, L D ^a   Sachdeva, Ajit K ^a   Healy, Gerald B ^a   Whalen, Thomas V ^a   Blair, Patrice Gabler ^a  

^a AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; MEDICAL SOCIETY; ORGANIZATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; SLEEP TIME; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING; WELLBEING; WORK SCHEDULE; WORKING TIME; WORKLOAD;

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

EID: 68949220849     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.07.002     Document Type: Editorial

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