Effect of Residency Duty-Hour Limits
Open Access
- 23 July 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 167 (14) , 1487-1492
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.167.14.1487
Abstract
Residency duty-hour restrictions were implemented by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) in July 2003 to reduce the risk of adverse events resulting from sleep deprivation and to enhance residents' well-being.1,2 Before implementation of duty-hour regulations, some cautioned that reductions in duty hours may have unanticipated negative effects on patient care, resident education, and professionalism.3-8In addition, some feared that a reduction in residents' duty hours would be accompanied by an increase in workload for clinical faculty.9 Studies evaluating the effect of programmatic changes to comply with duty-hour limitations have shown mixed effects on these outcomes.10 As anticipated, several studies show improvements in residents' well-being and quality of life11-14; however, effects on patient care, education, and professionalism among residents remain unclear.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: