Resident duty hours in surgery for ensuring patient safety, providing optimum resident education and training, and promoting resident well-being: a response from the American College of Surgeons to the Report of the Institute of Medicine, "Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep, Supervision, and Safety"

Surgery. 2009 Sep;146(3):398-409. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.07.002.
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Publication types

  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Fatigue / prevention & control
  • General Surgery / education*
  • General Surgery / legislation & jurisprudence
  • General Surgery / standards
  • Government Agencies
  • Humans
  • Internship and Residency* / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Internship and Residency* / standards
  • Quality of Health Care
  • Safety Management
  • Sleep
  • Societies, Medical
  • Time Factors
  • United States
  • Work Schedule Tolerance