Implementing a 48 h EWTD-compliant rota for junior doctors in the UK does not compromise patients' safety: assessor-blind pilot comparison

FP Cappuccio, A Bakewell, FM Taggart… - … Journal of Medicine, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Background: There are currently no field data about the effect of implementing European
Working Time Directive (EWTD)-compliant rotas in a medical setting. Surveys of doctors' …

Effective implementation of work-hour limits and systemic improvements

CP Landrigan, CA Czeisler, LK Barger, NT Ayas… - The Joint Commission …, 2007 - Elsevier
Article-at-a-Glance Background Sleep deprivation, ubiquitous among nurses and
physicians, recently has been shown to greatly increase rates of serious medical errors and …

[HTML][HTML] An investigation into how the European Working Time Directive has affected anaesthetic training

AR Bowhay - BMC Medical Education, 2008 - Springer
Abstract Background The European Working Time Directive (EWTD) became law in 1993
but only applied to doctors in training in the United Kingdom in 2004. The trainees have in …

[HTML][HTML] Resident productivity: trends over consecutive shifts

R Jeanmonod, S Damewood, C Brook - International journal of …, 2009 - Springer
Background It has been shown that residents' ability to see more patients and patients of
higher acuity improves with level of training. Aims No published study has reviewed whether …

Death of the physician apprentice

K Wynne - BMJ, 2009 - bmj.com
All doctors have a duty to supervise, teach, and appraise trainees. For centuries this
responsibility has been met by a traditional apprenticeship, dependent on trainees being …

European working time directive and medical errors

FP Cappuccio, MA Miller - … Health, and Society: From Aetiology to …, 2010 - books.google.com
The modernization of the National Health Service (NHS) and medical careers have over the
last 10 years or more brought growing pressures and demands for radical changes in the …

[CITATION][C] The way I see it Death of the physician apprentice

K Wynne - 2009