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- Title
Risks of Complications by Attending Physicians After Performing Nighttime Procedures.
- Authors
Rothschild, Jeffrey M.; Keohane, Carol A.; Rogers, Selwyn; Gardner, Roxane; Lipsitz, Stuart R.; Salzberg, Claudia A.; Yu, Tony; Yoon, Catherine S.; Williams, Deborah H.; Wien, Matt F.; Czeisler, Charles A.; Bates, David W.; Landrigan, Christopher P.
- Abstract
The article focuses on a study which investigated whether sleep opportunities for attending surgeons and obstetricians/gynecologists are linked with risks of complications. The study included 86 surgeons and 134 obstetricians/gynecologists who had been in the hospital performing nighttime procedures. Sleep opportunities were computed as the time between the end of the overnight procedure and the start of the first procedure the following day. Complications were found in 101 post-nighttime procedures. The study also discovered that postnighttime procedures that were completed after working for more than 12 hours had nonsignificantly higher complication rates.
- Subjects
SLEEP deprivation; SURGICAL errors; SURGICAL complications; SURGEONS; OBSTETRICIANS; SLEEP
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2009, Vol 302, Issue 14, p1565
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2009.1423