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Resident duty hours : enhancing sleep, supervision, and safety

Title
Resident duty hours : enhancing sleep, supervision, and safety / Cheryl Ulmer, Dianne Miller Wolman, Michael M.E. Johns, editors ; Committee on Optimizing Graduate Medical Trainee (Resident) Hours and Work Schedules to Improve Patient Safety.
Author
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Optimizing Graduate Medical Trainee (Resident) Hours and Work Schedules to Improve Patient Safety.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Ulmer, Cheryl.
  • Wolman, Dianne Miller.
  • Johns, Michael M. E.
Description
xxv, 400 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Residents (Medicine) > United States
  • Fatigue
  • Sleep deprivation
  • Hours of labor
  • Hospitals > United States > Safety measures
  • Medical errors
  • Internship and Residency > standards
  • Education, Medical, Graduate > standards
  • Medical Errors > prevention & control
  • Patient Care > standards
  • Sleep Deprivation > prevention & control
  • Work Schedule Tolerance
  • United States
Genre/Form
Guideline.
Note
  • "Institute of Medicine of the National Academies."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Background and overview -- 2. Current duty hours and monitoring adherence -- 3. Adapting the resident educational and work environment to duty hour limits -- 4. Improving the resident learning environment -- 5. Impact of duty hours on resident well-being -- 6. Contributors to error in the training environment -- 7. Strategies to reduce fatigue risk in resident work schedules -- 8. System strategies to improve patient safety and error prevention -- 9. Resources to implement improvements for patient safety and resident training -- App. A. Statement of task -- App. B. Comparison of select scheduling possibilities under committee recommendations and under 2003 ACGME duty hour rules -- App. C. International experiences limiting resident duty hours -- App. D. Glossary, acronyms, and abbreviations -- App. E. Committee member biographies -- App. F. Public meeting agendas.
ISBN
  • 9780309127769 (hardcover)
  • 0309127769 (hardcover)
LCCN
2009003372
OCLC
  • ocn300397085
  • 300397085
  • SCSB-5471958
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries