The impact of prolonged continuous wakefulness on resident clinical performance in the intensive care unit: A patient simulator study

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 766-770

  Sharpe, Robert ^a,e   Koval, Valentyna ^d   Ronco, Juan J ^a   Dodek, Peter ^a,b,c   Wong, Hubert ^f   Shepherd, John ^f   Fitzgerald, John Mark ^a   Ayas, Najib T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Critical Care Hospital   (Canada)

^c Center for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences   (Canada)

^d Division of Nephrology Immunology Vancouver   (Canada)

^e ROYAL COLUMBIAN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Medical errors; Patient safety; Patient simulation; Residents; Sleep deprivation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JOB PERFORMANCE; MEDICAL ERROR; MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESUSCITATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP DEPRIVATION;

EID: 77249147842     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181cd122a     Document Type: Article

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