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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2006-12-01
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| Series: | PLoS Medicine |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030487 |