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Can a tool developed for industry be used to assess fatigue risk in medical rotas? A pilot study of foundation doctors’ rotas in a tertiary centre

OBJECTIVES: To determine the feasibility and ease of using a pre-existing health and safety executive fatigue risk calculator to assess doctors’ rotas. DESIGN: Observational. SETTING: A large tertiary-referral teaching hospital in the UK. PARTICIPANTS: 95 anonymised foundation years 1 and 2 rotas in...

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Autores principales: Cumber, Elspeth, Greig, Paul Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6398646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30772847
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023470