Doctors’ Extended Shifts as Risk to Practitioner and Patient: South Africa as a Case Study

Extended shifts are common in medical practice. This is when doctors are required to work continuously for more than 16 h, with little or no rest, often without a maximum limit. These shifts have been a part of medical practice for more than a century. Research on the impact of fatigue presents comp...

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Autores principales: Kotze, Koot, van der Westhuizen, Helene-Mari, van Loggerenberg, Eldi, Jawitz, Farah, Ehrlich, Rodney
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7459929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32806723
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165853

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7459929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32806723
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165853

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