Impact of extended-duration shifts on medical errors, adverse events, and attentional failures.

Impact of extended-duration shifts on medical errors, adverse events, and attentional failures.

<h4>Background</h4>A recent randomized controlled trial in critical-care units revealed that the elimination of extended-duration work shifts (> or =24 h) reduces the rates of significant medical errors and polysomnographically recorded attentional failures. This raised the concern th...

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Main Authors: Laura K Barger, Najib T Ayas, Brian E Cade, John W Cronin, Bernard Rosner, Frank E Speizer, Charles A Czeisler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2006-12-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030487

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