Patient Outcomes when Housestaff Exceed 80 Hours per Week.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It has been posited that high workload and long work hours for trainees could affect the quality and efficiency of patient care. Duty hour restrictions seek to balance patient care and resident education by limiting resident work hours. Through a retrospective cohort study, we investigated whether patient care on an inpatient general medicine service at a large academic medical center is impacted when housestaff work more than 80 hours per week.

Methods

We identified all admissions to a housestaff-run general medicine service between June 25, 2013 and June 29, 2014. Each hospitalization was classified by whether the patient was admitted by housestaff who have worked more than 80 hours per week during their hospitalization. Housestaff computer activity and duty hou

SUBMITTER: Ouyang D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4996740 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature