The effect of nightshift on emergency registrars' clinical skills

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 211-215

  Marcus, Leonie ^a   Liew, Donald ^a   Knott, Jonathan ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clinical skill; Emergency medicine; nightshift

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL STAFF; NIGHT WORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; WORKING TIME;

AFTER-HOURS CARE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 77953351934     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2010.01286.x     Document Type: Article

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