Pediatric residents' perspectives on reducing work hours and lengthening residency: A national survey

Pediatrics

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 99-107

  Gordon, Mary Beth ^a,b   Sectish, Theodore C ^a,c,d   Elliott, Marc N ^e   Klein, David ^a,c   Landrigan, Christopher P ^a,c,f   Bogart, Laura M ^a,c   Amrock, Stephen ^a   Burke, Ann ^g   Chiang, Vincent W ^a,c   Schuster, Mark A ^a,c  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Federation of Pediatric Organizations   (United States)

^e RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Burnout; Depression; Internship and residency; Medical education; Quality of life; Work schedule tolerance

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PEDIATRICIAN; PEER GROUP; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WORK SCHEDULE; WORKING TIME;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84863514252     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2011-3498     Document Type: Article

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