Reducing work hours for medical interns increases patient 'handoff' risks
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
Limiting the number of continuous hours worked by medical trainees failed to increase the amount of sleep each intern got per week, but dramatically increased the number of potentially dangerous handoffs of patients from one trainee to another, new research suggests. The reductions in work hours also decreased training time, the researchers found.