Sleep and Work in ICU Physicians During a Randomized Trial of Nighttime Intensivist Staffing.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To compare sleep, work hours, and behavioral alertness in faculty and fellows during a randomized trial of nighttime in-hospital intensivist staffing compared with a standard daytime intensivist model.

Design

Prospective observational study.

Setting

Medical ICU of a tertiary care academic medical center during a randomized controlled trial of in-hospital nighttime intensivist staffing.

Patients

Twenty faculty and 13 fellows assigned to rotations in the medical ICU during 2012.

Interventions

As part of the parent study, there was weekly randomization of staffing model, stratified by 2-week faculty rotation. During the standard staffing model, there were in-hospital residents, with a fellow and faculty member available at nighttime by phone. In

SUBMITTER: Bakhru RN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6579612 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature