Design and recruitment of the randomized order safety trial evaluating resident-physician schedules (ROSTERS) study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

While the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education limited first year resident-physicians to 16 consecutive work hours from 2011 to 2017, resident-physicians in their second year or higher were permitted to work up to 28 h consecutively. This paper describes the Randomized Order Safety Trial Evaluating Resident-physician Schedules (ROSTERS) study, a clustered-randomized crossover clinical trial designed to evaluate the effectiveness of eliminating traditional shifts of 24 h or longer for second year or higher resident-physicians in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs).

Methods

ROSTERS was a multi-center non-blinded trial in 6 PICUs at US academic medical centers. The primary aim was to compare patient safety between the extended duration work roste

SUBMITTER: Blackwell T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6482052 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature