Duty-hour limits and patient care and resident outcomes: Can high-quality studies offer insight into complex relationships?

Annual Review of Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 467-483

  Philibert, Ingrid ^a   Nasca, Thomas ^a,b   Brigham, Timothy ^a,b   Shapiro, Jane ^a  

^a ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical skills; continuity of care; fatigue; graduate medical education; patient safety

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; CLINICAL SUPERVISION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; REVIEW; SLEEP TIME; WORK EXPERIENCE; WORK SCHEDULE; WORKLOAD;

HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; PATIENT CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84873037474     PISSN: 00664219     EISSN: 1545326X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-med-120711-135717     Document Type: Review

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