| Contents |
Background and overview -- Current duty hours and monitoring adherence -- Adapting the resident educational and work environment to duty hour limits -- Improving the resident learning environment -- Impact of duty hours on resident well-being -- Contributions to error in the training environment -- Strategies to reduce fatigue risk in resident work schedules -- System strategies to improve patient safety and error prevention -- Resources to implement imvprovements for patient safety and resident training. |
| Contents |
Appendices: Statement of task -- Comparison of select scheduling possibilities under committee recommendations and under 2003 ACGME duty hour rules -- International experiences limiting resident duty hours -- Glossary, acronyms, and abbreviations -- Committee member biographies -- Public meeting agendas. |
| General note | "Institute of Medicine of the National Academies." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other forms | Also available online via the Internet as viewed 14 July 2009. |
| LCCN | 2009003372 |
| ISBN | 9780309127769 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0309127769 (hardcover) |
