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Work-hour regulations affect short-term mortality of high-risk patients
CHP/PCOR in the newsCHP/PCOR fellow Kanaka Shetty and core faculty member Jay Bhattacharya recently published a study that examines the effect of limited work hours for all residency programs in the United States. The study, entitled Changes in Hospital Mortality Associated with Residency Work-Hour Regulations, looks at whether changes in work-hour regulations were associated with changes in mortality in hospitalized patients, finding that work-hour regulations were associated with decreased short-term mortality among high-risk patients in teaching hospitals. However, the regulations were not associated with changes among surgical patients. This article specifically looks at the effect of fewer hours in residency training on substandard care. A Yale-New Haven Hospital study is also referenced.
