Extended Work Shifts and the Risk of Motor Vehicle Crashes among Interns
Harvard University · Brigham and Women's Hospital · +2 more institutions
Abstract
Long work hours and work shifts of an extended duration (> or =24 hours) remain a hallmark of medical education in the United States. Yet their effect on health and safety has not been evaluated with the use of validated measures.
We conducted a prospective nationwide, Web-based survey in which 2737 residents in their first postgraduate year (interns) completed 17,003 monthly reports that provided detailed information about work hours, work shifts of an extended duration, documented motor vehicle crashes, near-miss incidents, and incidents involving involuntary sleeping.
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 65.78
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 20
Authors
7- LKLaura K. BargerCorresponding
Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- BEBrian E. Cade
Brigham and Women's Hospital
- NANajib Ayas
Vancouver Coastal Health, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- JCJohn Cronin
Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- BRBernard Rosner
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Topics & keywords
- Confidence interval
- Odds ratio
- Medicine
- Crash
- Odds
- Injury prevention
- Poison control
- Demography
- Quality Education
Funding
- NANational Aeronautics and Space AdministrationAward: NCC9-58
- BABrigham and Women's HospitalAward: T32 HL079010
- NSNational Space Biomedical Research InstituteAward: NCC9-58
- BCBritish Columbia Lung Association
- AFAgency for Healthcare Research and QualityAward: RO1 HS12032
- CICanadian Institutes of Health Research
- NHNational Heart, Lung, and Blood InstituteAward: T32 HL079010