Fifteen-minute consultation: problems in the healthy paediatrician - managing the effects of shift work on your health

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education and Practice Edition

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 127-132

  Farquhar, Michael ^a  

^a EVELINA LONDON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health Service; Injury Prevention; Medical Education; Physiology; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FATALITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PATIENT CARE; PEDIATRICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIFT WORKER; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP STAGE; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; ADAPTATION; ADULT; COPING BEHAVIOR; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHIFT SCHEDULE; SLEEP DEPRIVATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIATRICIANS; SHIFT WORK SCHEDULE; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85007162659     PISSN: 17430585     EISSN: 17430593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2016-312119     Document Type: Article

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