Effect of reducing interns' work hours on serious medical errors in intensive care units

Landrigan, C. P., Rothschild, J. M., Cronin, J. W., Kaushal, R., Burdick, E., Katz, J. T., Lilly, C. M., et al. (2004). Effect of reducing interns' work hours on serious medical errors in intensive care units. New England Journal of Medicine, 351(18), 1838-1848.

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Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2004

Volume

351

Issue

18

Pages

1838-1848

DOI

10.1056/nejmoa041406

DOI registrant

Massachusetts Medical Society

Link

https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa041406

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psychology

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• Cognitive Resource Depletion
  • A surgeon's attention span declines across a long operative session; a manager's decision quality declines across a long workday; a student's comprehension declines across massed study; a nurse's emotional resilience declines across weeks without recovery, a class of effects Landrigan and colleagues (2004) document by showing that interns working extended hospital shifts make substantially more serious medical errors.

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