Duty hours in emergency medicine: Balancing patient safety, resident wellness, and the resident training experience: A consensus response to the 2008 institute of medicine resident duty hours recommendations

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1004-1011

  Wagner, Mary Jo ^a   Wolf, Stephen ^b   Promes, Susan ^c   McGee, Doug ^d   Hobgood, Cheri ^e   Doty, Christopher ^f   McErlean, Mara Ann ^g   Janssen, Alan ^h   Smith Coggins, Rebecca ⁱ   Ling, Louis ^j   Mattu, Amal ^k   Tantama, Stephen ^l   Beeson, Michael ^m   Brabson, Thomas ⁿ   Christiansen, Greg ^o   King, Brent ^p   Luerssen, Emily ^q   Muelleman, Robert ^r  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h GENESYS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^l NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^m AKRON GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁿ AtlantiCare   (United States)

^o VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^q MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

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Author keywords

education; graduate; internship and residency; medical

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; FATIGUE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; REVIEW; WELLBEING; WORKING TIME; WORKLOAD;

CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES AS TOPIC; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FATIGUE; HUMANS; INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE (U.S.); INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; SAFETY; UNITED STATES; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 78349236953     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00789.x     Document Type: Review

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