Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Iglehart, John K

Titel

Revisiting Duty-Hour Limits — IOM Recommendations for Patient Safety and Resident Education

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 2008-12, Vol.359 (25), p.2633-2635

Ort / Verlag

United States: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

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Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• On December 2, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a report recommending that further measures be taken to ensure that hospitals provide safer conditions for patients and trainees while maintaining rigorous teaching programs. As John Iglehart writes, the IOM acknowledges that the two largest barriers to implementing its recommendations are the cost and the difficulty of finding an adequate number of other health care professionals to do the work of residents. On December 2, about 5 years after the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) imposed national limits on the duty hours of medical residents, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a report recommending that further measures be taken to ensure that hospitals provide safer conditions for patients and trainees while maintaining rigorous teaching programs. 1 The report concludes that these new measures should be focused on alleviating fatigue and loss of sleep among trainees, increasing their supervision by more senior physicians, improving the processes by which responsibilities for patients are transferred from physicians going off duty to those coming on, . . .