1. Association of Resident Fatigue and Distress With Perceived Medical Errors.
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West, Colin P., Tan, Angelina D., Habermann, Thomas M., Sloan, Jeff A., and Shanafelt, Tait D.
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MEDICAL errors ,PSYCHOLOGY of physicians ,RESIDENTS (Medicine) ,FATIGUE (Physiology) ,PSYCHOLOGICAL distress ,INTERNS (Medicine) - Abstract
The article discusses a study which examined the association of fatigue and distress with self-perceived major medical errors among resident physicians. The study included 380 categorical and preliminary internal resident physicians at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota who started their training from 2003 to 2008. It found that 39 percent of the study participants made at least one major medical error during the study period. Such errors were found to be associated with burnout, emotional exhaustion, depression, fatigue and distress.
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- 2009
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