Have restricted working hours reduced junior doctors' experience of fatigue? A focus group and telephone interview study

BMJ Open

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Morrow, Gill ^a   Burford, Bryan ^b   Carter, Madeline ^a   Illing, Jan ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SPECIALIZATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM; WORK EXPERIENCE; WORKING TIME; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTERVIEW; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MEDICAL STAFF; WORK; WORK SCHEDULE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; PHYSICIANS; WORK; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 84897512328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004222     Document Type: Article

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